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<div id="contentWrapper"><div id="contentLeft" class="carryOverOpen"><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020170224ed2p0004z" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Inquirer</td></tr>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Amanda Hodge Southeast Asia correspondent </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Joint patrols in South China Sea ‘very important’</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s first state visit to Australia had been scheduled to occur in the middle of a rare purple patch in relations with ­Indonesia, a neighbour whose friendship and trust we have long coveted even as we have taken the occasional peek over the fence.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead the Indonesian President, who was forced to cancel his November trip amid trouble at home, arrives in Sydney this morning as both countries are dusting themselves off from yet another scrap.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That a relationship historically characterised by volatility should hit a road bump is not surprising, even if it was between the two defence forces whose ties are considered one of the great strengths of the broader partnership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is more noteworthy is the speed with which the nations have recovered and that even a recent part suspension of military ties, over allegedly offensive training materials at Perth’s Campbell barracks has proven no obstacle to an expansion of the relationship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an exclusive interview ahead of his two-day visit this weekend, Widodo tells Inquirer what Canberra has long been waiting to hear: that Indonesia is ready and prepared to conduct joint patrols with Australia through the contested waters of the South China Sea, one of the world’s busiest and most valuable shipping lanes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Widodo sees joint Australian-Indonesian patrols in the South China Sea, potentially around Indonesia’s Natuna Islands where its navy had several skirmishes last year with Chinese poachers, as “very important”, as long as they do not raise tensions in the region.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If there is tension like last year, it is difficult to decide this program, but if there is no tension I think it’s very important to have the patrols together,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We will discuss this with PM Turnbull.” This is a significant step forward for the relationship, as it is for Indonesia, which has long resisted abandoning neutrality over regional maritime disputes even as it has faced its own issues with ­Beijing. China claims ownership of more than 90 per cent of the resource-rich waters and shipping lanes of the South China Sea, under its Nine-Dash Line map, which includes waters around Indonesia’s gas-rich ­Natuna Islands, but not the islands themselves.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senior Indonesian government ministers were quick to wind back on Indonesian Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu’s revelations late last year that he had discussed possible joint patrols with Australia’s foreign and defence ministers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But things have changed since then. While China has long been working to lure Asian countries from Washington’s orbit and shift the regional balance of power in its favour, what is new is the more antagonistic rhetoric coming from the Trump administration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told a confirmation hearing last month the US would not allow China access to its artificial islands, and that its control and militarisation of those islands in waters claimed by neighbouring countries was “akin to Russia’s taking of Crimea”. Former Australian defence chief Angus Houston warned this week against supporting any US-led blockade that could trigger open conflict, advising the best way forward would be for Australia to concentrate on building regional alliances.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Widodo would not be drawn on Tillerson’s comments but tells ­Inquirer he, too, sees diplomacy as the only way to resolve the ongoing territorial disputes, and that Indonesia will work through ASEAN to “pursue a code of conduct to govern the waters”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We understand it is in everyone’s interests for there to be peace and stability in our region. It is very, very important. And our countries should avoid increasing tension over the South China Sea, for whatever reason,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia conducts joint exercises in the South China Sea with India and the US, as well as regular maritime patrol surveillance flights out of Malaysia’s Butterworth air base with the Royal ­Malaysian Air Force.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But naval patrols with ­Indonesia would be a coup, enhancing our relationship with a country we see as a critical intermediary with southeast Asia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Says John Blaxland, senior fellow at ANU’s <span class="companylink">Strategic and Defence Studies Centre</span>: “We have to recognise that China has what it wants pretty much. There is no point fighting them over what they have now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The question is whether we put up a fuss about them going any further, and that is where we are keen to work with Indonesia. Because we just don’t know what’s around the corner. We don’t want the South China Sea to become a closed Chinese lake.” Joint patrols would also handily refresh defence and security ties forged out of the carnage of the 2002 Bali bombs and 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, ties Blaxland says have since atrophied as Indonesia’s security forces, including Australian-trained counter-terrorism units, have come of age.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We need to add strings to this relationship because the ones we have are frayed. The whole thing with (Indonesian defence chief) Gatot Nurmantyo suspending military ties was symptomatic of a relationship that is still too fragile.” There is little consensus among Indonesia-watchers over Australia’s relative importance to Jakarta. Those who would paint Australia as a somewhat unrequited suitor say we are too small, both in military and in economic terms, to figure heavily in Indonesia’s foreign priorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marcus ­Mietzner, an Indonesia expert at ANU’s College of Asia and the ­Pacific, says the key obstacle to a closer relationship is that Indonesia does not see Australia as a middle power to be reckoned with.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Australia is not a big enough market for Indonesia to target as a primary export destination; doesn’t produce anything the country would be particularly interested in with the exception of cattle; and doesn’t have a big enough military to count as one of the significant players in the Asia-Pacific region,” Mietzner says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“(Widodo’s) priorities are China, Japan, the US and Germany, which he views as places of technological innovation and economic power. Australia doesn’t register in this regard.” Yet there is undeniable warmth between Widodo and Malcolm Turnbull, as the Indonesian President was at pains to emphasise this week, along with the recognition that the relationship has unrealised potential. Turnbull’s November 2015 visit is widely credited with having reset the relationship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amity between leaders is in contrast to the relationship under Tony Abbott, whose tenure coincided with revelations Australia spied on former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono; the executions of Bali Nine leaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran; and Abbott’s <b>asylum boat</b> turn-back policy. Jakarta made no secret of its dislike for Australia’s hardline solution to the flow of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats from Indonesia, but Turnbull has been a beneficiary of the policy, which has shifted a former key irritant in the relationship to a relative side issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The issue is unlikely to feature prominently in talks this weekend beyond Indonesia’s standing request that Australia accept some of the 14,000 refugees it now hosts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Widodo confirms he will raise that with Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“You know, we understand each other,” he tells Inquirer of his relationship with Turnbull. “We come from the same background, business. I know PM Turnbull was a businessman before, and me also. We want to achieve concrete things with PM Turnbull.” Both leaders see economic engagement as the linchpin of the relationship and aim to conclude the Indonesia Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, a broad deal designed to remove barriers to trade and investment and to better integrate the region’s two largest economies to increase trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia will seek to shore up its $1 billion-a-year live cattle trade to Indonesia, under threat from Jakarta’s push for self-reliance through its own breeding program, and Widodo has listed trade, investment and tourism as key areas for stronger engagement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Turnbull may be disappointed if he has been counting on Indonesia backing Australia’s ­efforts to revive the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Widodo says Indonesia had intended to join the trade deal, but “now President Trump said he wants to scrap the TPP”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In those changed circumstances, a bilateral trade deal with Australia must come first, “because we need to increase trade between Indonesia and Australia”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We must work harder to strengthen (that) because investment from Australia is still very low if we compare with the other countries.” Indonesia is Australia’s 13th largest trading partner. Two-way annual trade of goods and services is valued at $15 billion and Australian direct investment in Indonesia was just $5.5bn in 2015-16.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Widodo wants more investment in infrastructure, mining, education and tourism. He has made the expansion of ­Indonesia’s tourist industry a key plank of his economic revival plan, alongside infrastructure, to ease reliance on raw commodities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He wants Australia to help design and manage the expansion of Indonesia’s tourist infrastructure beyond Bali, which attracts a million Australians each year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says: “You must explore my country, like Raja Ampat (a chain of islands off the West Papuan coast); we have Labuan Bajo (gateway to ­Komodo); we have Borobudur (Buddhist temple in central Java); we have Toba Lake (Indonesia’s biggest) and Ambon, which is also close to Australia.” A fault line in the relationship has been a lack of understanding of each other’s histories and cultures, as seen again last month when Gatot suspended military ties over materials used in an officer exchange language course.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The material was believed to have included a pejorative reference to Indonesia’s five founding principles, known as Pancasila, as well as an essay question asking students to discuss whether West Papua should be an independent state. For the ultranationalist Gatot, who has expressed suspicions that Australia uses the military exchange program to “recruit” its best officers, it was a flashing red line. There are still deep resentments within the Indonesian army in particular over Australia’s support for East Timorese independence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has since signed the 2006 Lombok Treaty, recognising Indonesian sovereignty over West Papua.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For a day or two at least it looked like last month’s spat was to have broader implications for the relationship. That it did not says much about the commitment on both sides to maintain ties, and a mutual ­acknowledgment that the two countries are too close not to get along, says Dave McRae, a senior fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“For a president who by all accounts has no special interest in Australia and has been accused of being too distant from broader issues of foreign policy, I think this visit underlines not that Australia necessarily has become a burning issue for Indonesia, but that there is a commitment to maintain constructive ties,’’ McRae says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">McRae says the emergence of Islamic State has injected “fresh impetus” into the relationship by underlining the importance to both countries of intelligence-sharing and counter-terrorism co-operation. Both are grappling with how to deal with the recruitment and possible return of terrorist fighters from Islamic State battlefields in the Middle East.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That is undoubtedly true, says Yohanes Sulaiman, a former Indonesian government security adviser and now lecturer at Indonesia’s General Achmad Yani University. “But for Indonesia, the biggest problem is not foreign policy but domestic politics, which is why ­Jokowi decided to postpone his visit to Australia last November,” says Sulaiman.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And it is the same motivation behind the rescheduling of the ­Indonesian leader’s trip at the earliest window after the Jakarta elections. “He wants to reciprocate Malcolm Turnbull’s visit,” says ­Sulaiman. “But at the same time I think he really wants to show that he now has everything under control in Indonesia. Maybe you could call it a mini victory lap.” Widodo’s November trip was postponed after mass protests by conservative Islamists and political opposition groups demanding the jailing for blasphemy of Jakarta’s incumbent governor, a key political ally, turned violent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A subsequent prayer rally in December attracted an astonishing half-million people to the centre of Jakarta, where they prayed for Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama’s incarceration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ahok, the city’s first Christian, ethnic Chinese governor in half a century, now faces trial for blasphemy, even as he prepares to contest a second-round election after failing to secure an outright majority last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ahok’s trial is said to have exposed not only the rising influence of conservative Islam in Indonesia but the weakness of its democratic institutions in the face of mob pressure. Widodo insists Indonesia will remain tolerant and pluralistic because — with more than 700 ethnicities and 1100 local languages — “it is in our DNA and nothing is going to change that”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whether the country should abolish its blasphemy laws, however, is for the Indonesian people to decide.“I will ask my people,” he says when asked about the two laws. “I always go to the ground. I listen to my people. I ask them what they need, what they want.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AS an avid reader of Chatroom I have seen many very worthwhile ideas put forward over the years. But if we want better infrastructure, policing, prison system etc we must put our money where our messages are. Perhaps writers should also indicate whether they are prepared to pay higher taxes/rates to achieve their goals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hey Pep, trial games dont count, support the Titans or keep silent. – Mowerman</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John mc History lesson. All in modern day Israel were Israelites some became Christians then later some became Muslims. Some believed neither and stayed Jewish. Israel belongs to Christians Jews and Muslims alike.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I read your editorial in support of burleigh headland and commend you. Shame there was no such support for the opposition to <span class="companylink">Boral</span> quarry in the tallebudgera - reedy creek area. They’re still fighting to put it in – now that would be an eco disaster.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Adding an extra lane to Sundale Bridge making it five lanes will not fix traffic problems! There is only two lanes on SeaWorld Drive at Main Beach, that is one bottleneck. The other is Surfers Paradise there is only four lanes to travel through. Years ago there used to be six, three north and three south.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Had orthodontics and dental appointments yesterday/ offered a rug for warmth, which I gladly accepted. What is it with public places/ shopping centres: temperature set unbearably cool – we don’t need to be reminded of winter. Just try to be conscious of the power required to maintain the temperatures. I try to be frugal but comfortable at home which means the aircon goes days without use – until the husband returns. – JAT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DJ Fraser, don’t forget these <b>asylum</b> seekers came by <b>boat</b> which makes them illegal queue jumpers so they are criminals. They should be sent back where they come from. – Rod, Ashmore</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Re Carrara development. How about fixing the intersection adjacent to the proposed development first ie a flyover in either direction may solve the problem and make sure the development allows for an absolute minimum of 2 car parks for every unit to be built</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thankyou James Reyne. You saved my morning drive. Is Gold Coast morning radio the worst in the country? Unfunny and boring. – GK</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I signed up for NBN. Big mistake. When the information pack came and no landline I phoned up to cancel. <span class="companylink">Telstra</span> were rude. Told me to get a mobile for emergency calls during blackouts. If I have to pay for a mobile why would I want the extra expense of the NBN? Another govt stuff up. – Molendinar retiree</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Drug makers and dealers are quite happy to risk getting caught because of slap on the wrist or light sentence given by weak judges. Plenty of money when they get out to start again. – MarySouthport magistrates need to get their act together. One person gets a 6 month driving suspension for forgetting to renew their licence. Another gets a 1 month suspension for driving while disqualified and failing a drug test. How is that fair?</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Reckless Dutton may have scuppered US <b>refugee</b> deal</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MICHAEL GORDON </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>687 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Is Peter Dutton deliberately trying to sabotage the deal to resettle refugees from Manus Island and Nauru? Or is the Immigration Minister simply just insensitive, undiplomatic and incompetent?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Either way, he is flirting with fire when he asserts Australia will not take any Costa Rica refugees from the United States until the Americans deliver on their agreement to take refugees from Manus Island and Nauru.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also revealed that not only he, but Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison, misled the Australian people when they asserted point blank, repeatedly, that there was no connection whatsoever between the two arrangements.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton's interview with Andrew Bolt on Sky News was extraordinary in several respects, but mostly because it implied a lack of trust in the United States to deliver on the deal Malcolm Turnbull negotiated with Barack Obama.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That Dutton should do this after all the controversy over that phone call between Turnbull and Donald Trump is, at best, inexplicable. At worst, it is dangerous and unforgivable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump has made it abundantly clear that he is looking for any excuse to junk the deal and Dutton has just handed him one on a platter. What was he thinking?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"My job is to argue our case. The US can argue theirs," Dutton declared. No, mate, they are our trusted ally and Turnbull has been assiduous in asserting there is no argument.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Referring to the 2011 Malaysian people-swap agreement negotiated by the Gillard government, Dutton told Bolt: "We're not going to be sucked into that sort of silly outcome." That agreement was designed to stem the flow of boats to Australia, with Malaysia agreeing to accept 800 <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived in Australia by <b>boat</b> in return for Australia taking 4000 refugees from Malaysia over four years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other potential benefits included <b>asylum</b> seekers being granted work rights in Malaysia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gillard honoured her part of the bargain, but no <b>asylum</b> seekers were sent from Australia to Malaysia because of Coalition obstruction, not once, but twice. Tony Abbott, who led that obstruction, has since conceded this was a mistake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull announced at the Obama <b>refugee</b> summit last September that Australia would participate in the US-led program to resettle Central American refugees currently in a resettlement centre in Costa Rica.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The same day, I wrote that, if Turnbull's offer to help the United States was not the start of a solution for those on Nauru and Manus Island, it should be.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There is a logical quid pro quo here: that if Australia helps the US by resettling refugees being held in Latin America, they should do the same for Australia by resettling refugees detained on tiny islands," I wrote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Turnbull was asked if the deal could amount to a people-swap agreement, he was emphatic. "The announcement today is not connected to any other arrangements," he told reporters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This was repeated many times, including by Dutton and Morrison.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But not any more. To Bolt, Dutton also said he would not use the term "people-swap" to describe the arrangement, but added that he had no "problem with the characterisation".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He then made the link crystal clear by saying Australia would not take anyone from Costa Rica "until we had assurances that people were to go off Nauru and Manus". If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton also predicted that the first transfers from Nauru and Manus to the United States would take place in "the next couple of months", though this would seem a wildly optimistic assessment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even before Trump declared that transfers would be subjected to "extreme vetting", it was unlikely that any transfers would take place before May.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Julie Bishop has since reverted to script, declining to endorse any connection between the arrangements and expressing confidence that the agreement to resettle up to 1250 of the more than 2000 on Nauru and Manus is progressing well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But words, once said, can't be unsaid.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton can only hope that Trump is too busy to have noticed, or doesn't care.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Detention is cruel but necessary, half of us say</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>742 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Survey - Attitudes to <b>asylum</b></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians overwhelmingly believe keeping <b>asylum</b> seekers on Manus Island and Nauru indefinitely is cruel, but are evenly split on whether they should be resettled in Australia, a survey has found.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The poll by <span class="companylink">Roy Morgan Research</span> shows attitudes towards those held on remote foreign islands are heavily based on age, gender, geography and political affiliation, with young progressive voters strongly supporting resettlement in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The chief executive officer of <span class="companylink">Roy Morgan Research</span>, Michele Levine, said those who took part in the poll were invited to comment on the policy that has left more than 2000 <b>asylum</b> seekers on Manus and Nauru for more than three years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Even those who said: 'Don't bring them to Australia' would still say: 'It's really cruel, I'm concerned at the way they are living'," Ms Levine told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There is an overwhelming concern and response to the human suffering that seems to cut across everything."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The SMS Morgan Poll of 1266 Australians last weekend found a majority of voters in Victoria (52 per cent), NSW (51) and Tasmania (58) supported bringing those on Manus and Nauru to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A majority of voters in Queensland (53 per cent), Western Australia (57) and South Australia (54) opposed resettlement in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Younger voters were more likely to support resettlement in Australia, with the strongest support among those under 24 (58 per cent) and the strongest opposition among those aged between 50 and 64 (57 per cent).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Female voters strongly supported resettlement in Australia (58 per cent) while male voters were just as likely to be opposed (59 per cent).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Greens supporters (93 per cent) and Labor voters (68 per cent) were in favour of resettlement in Australia, Coalition voters were strongly opposed (77 per cent).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The survey coincides an announcement that the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is set to hold limited public hearings on Australia's immigration detention regime on Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The news was welcomed by the executive director of the Human Rights Law Centre, Hugh de Kretser, who said "any scrutiny of the Australian government's role in harming innocent children in its care is vital, welcome and overdue".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink"><b>Refugee</b> Council of Australia</span> on Tuesday released a "state of the nation" report, applauding Australia's resettlement of refugees from overseas as leading the world, but describing the approach to <b>asylum</b> seekers as "among the world's worst".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Australia, alone in the world, sends people seeking <b>asylum</b> by <b>boat</b> to tiny islands with threats they will never be able to seek safety in Australia," the report says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While human rights agencies have repeatedly described the indefinite confinement of <b>asylum</b> seekers on the islands as in breach of international law, the Turnbull government has vowed that none of those on Nauru or Manus will be resettled in Australia, insisting this would be an incentive to people smugglers to attempt to restart their trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">American officials have begun interviewing detainees on Manus Island who want to be included in the agreement to resettle up to 1250 of the refugees in the United States. They have completed the first round on interviews on Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">US President Donald Trump has branded the deal, struck with his predecessor Barack Obama, as "dumb" but agreed to proceed with it in a tense phone call with Malcolm Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked if Labor would support resettlement in Australia if the US deal fell over, Labor's Tanya Plibersek told the ABC on Monday: "No, we need to find third-country resettlement as quickly as possible."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Levine said a majority of opponents to resettlement in Australia said the <b>asylum</b> seekers had not come the "right way" or expressed concern that Australia had enough challenges accommodating those already here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A fear that resettlement in Australia could lead to thousands attempting to come to Australia was mentioned "a little bit", but was not "at the top of people's minds".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's less about border security, it's less about fear that there'll be hordes of people coming. It's really concerns about, do we have enough housing? Will we be able to fit them in? What about our own poor?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'Even those who said: 'Don't bring them to Australia' would still say: 'It's really cruel, I'm concerned at the way they are living'.' Roy Morgan Research CEO, Michele Levine</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Indefinite <b>refugee</b> detention is cruel: national survey</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>473 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians overwhelmingly believe keeping <b>asylum</b> seekers on Manus Island and Nauru indefinitely is cruel, but are evenly split on whether they should be resettled in Australia, a survey has found.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The poll by <span class="companylink">Roy Morgan Research</span> shows attitudes towards those held on remote foreign islands are based on age, gender, geography and political affiliation, with young progressive voters strongly supporting resettlement in Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The chief officer of <span class="companylink">Roy Morgan Research</span>, Michele Levine, said those who took part in the poll were invited to comment on the policy that has left more than 2000 <b>asylum</b> seekers on Manus and Nauru for more than three years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Even those who said: 'Don't bring them to Australia' would still say: 'It's really cruel, I'm concerned at the way they are living'," Ms Levine said. "There is an overwhelming concern and response to the human suffering that seems to cut across everything."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The SMS Morgan Poll of 1266 Australians last weekend found most voters in Victoria (52 per cent), NSW (51) and Tasmania (58) supported bringing those on Manus and Nauru to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A majority of voters in Queensland (53 per cent), Western Australia (57) and South Australia (54) opposed resettlement in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Younger voters were more likely to support resettlement in Australia, with the strongest support among those under 24 (58 per cent) and the strongest opposition among those aged between 50 and 64 (57 per cent).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Women strongly supported resettlement in Australia (58 per cent) while men were just as likely to be opposed (59 per cent).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Greens supporters (93 per cent) and Labor voters (68 per cent) were in favour of resettlement, Coalition voters were strongly opposed (77 per cent).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The survey coincides with an announcement that the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is set to hold limited public hearings on Australia's immigration detention regime on Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The news was welcomed by executive director of the Human Rights Law Centre's Executive Director, Hugh de Kretser, who said "any scrutiny of the Australian government's role in harming innocent children in its care is vital, welcome and overdue".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink"><b>Refugee</b> Council of Australia</span> on Tuesday released a "state of the nation" report, applauding Australia's resettlement of refugees from overseas as leading the world, but describing the approach to <b>asylum</b> seekers as "among the world's worst".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Australia, alone in the world, sends people seeking <b>asylum</b> by <b>boat</b> to tiny islands with threats they will never be able to seek safety in Australia," the report says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While human rights agencies have repeatedly described the indefinite confinement of <b>asylum</b> seekers on the islands as in breach of international law, the Turnbull Government has vowed that none of those on Nauru or Manus will be resettled in Australia.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> on drug rap</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JANET FIFE-YEOMANS </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>321 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Iranian accused of smuggling meth into Australia</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AN IRANIAN man who was granted <b>refugee</b> protection under Labor’s open-door <b>asylum</b> policy allegedly has been caught smuggling drugs into Australia from Iran.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite claiming to be in fear of his life if he returned to Iran, Vahid Reza Azadpour Saleh, 31, spent more time in Iran than he did in Australia after he was granted a protection visa – including one seven-month stretch, immigration records show.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Saleh, who arrived on Christmas Island by <b>boat</b> in 2011, had told immigration ­officials he would be harmed if he returned because he said he knew the Iranian authorities were “looking for him”, a NSW court has been told.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On one trip back to Iran he even got married.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Returning via Dubai on another trip, Saleh was allegedly caught at Sydney Airport with 1.5kg of methamphetamine concealed in a bath towel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Saleh is due to face trial again this year for drug smuggling after a jury last year returned a hung verdict.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Saleh’s trips to Iran were revealed last week after he ­applied for bail following the jury’s inability to reach a verdict.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was allegedly caught with the drugs after arriving in Sydney on December 31 on an Emirates flight using an Australian travel document, but also with an Iranian passport in his own name.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refusing him bail, Judge Paul Conlon said the ­evidence assembled by immigration showed Saleh had returned to Iran on at least five occasions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That is the country from which he sought protection,” Judge Conlon said. He said that from the day Saleh’s visa was granted until January 2016, the so-called <b>refugee</b> had spent a total of 656 days away from Australia, the majority of those in Iran.When his bag was opened at Sydney Airport, officers noticed a white crystal substance transferred to their gloved hands.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Iranian <b>refugee</b>’s drug charges</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JANET FIFE-YEOMANS </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>304 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AN Iranian man granted <b>refugee</b> protection after claiming to be in fear for his life has allegedly been caught smuggling drugs into Australia – from Iran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After he was granted a protection visa, Vahid Reza Azadpour Saleh, 31, spent more time in Iran than he did in Australia, including one seven-month stretch, records show.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This was despite being granted his protection visa after claiming that, if he returned to Iran, he would be harmed because he said he knew the Iranian authorities were “looking for him”, a Sydney court has heard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On one trip back to his native country, he married.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Returning via Dubai on another trip, Saleh was allegedly caught at Sydney Airport with 1.5kg of pure methamphetamine “impregnanted” into a bath towel found in his luggage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The man is due to face trial again later this year on drug smuggling charges after a jury last year returned with a hung verdict.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His trips home were revealed last week after he applied for bail after the jury could not reach a verdict. He had arrive by <b>boat</b> at Christmas Island on April 12, 2011.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The court heard that, after he was granted a protection visa on August 6, 2012, with the help of a migration agent, he made trips from Australia in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was allegedly caught with the drugs and an Islamic Public Iran passport in his own name. He had married while back in Iran between March and October 2015, the court was told.Refusing him bail pending his new trial, Judge Paul Conlon said the evidence assembled by immigration auth-orities showed he had returned to Iran on at least five of those trips. “That is the country from which he sought protection,” Judge Conlon said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>JOE’S GUN <b>BOAT</b> DIPLOMACY</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EXCLUSIVE Charles Miranda </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hockey’s wartime doco to heal US-Australia rift</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FORMER treasurer Joe Hockey is looking to reset the bruised US-Australian alliance through movies with his storyboard pitch for a docudrama on the “mateship” between the nations set to be made into a cable network series.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the wake of that cut-short call that rocked the relationship between the US and Australia, Canberra’s man in Washington Ambassador Hockey is to remind the Americans of the special closeness the nations have enjoyed through 100 years of fighting wars together.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The move to reinforce the strategic alliance through combat is seen as timely given the diplomatic fallout from last month’s leak of a strained telephone exchange between Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and President Donald Trump on the Manus Island <b>refugee</b> deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood Mr Hockey first approached Foxtel CEO Peter Tonagh with his Mateship 1918-2018 proposal for “a broadcaster’s opinion” late last year prior to the presidential inauguration of Mr Trump, but Foxtel confirmed his staff maintain weekly discussions with the network.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The program, expected to include real footage and re-enactments, could go into production as early as this May.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade sources have confirmed the “campaign” is backed by the Australian Government and at this stage is to climax in 2018 on the Fourth of July, America’s most revered public holiday Independence Day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Foxtel is to act as executive producer and feature the program on its History Channel but a production house was currently being sought by tender.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ambassador’s six-page pitch outlining the idea for the documentary begins with the first non-American to command US troops, Sir John Monash, at the battle of Hamel on the Western Front in 1918.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It closes with coalition operations in Iraq and Syria this year. It could also now include Defence’s confirmation this week that from March 1 the Australian General Roger Noble is to be made deputy commander of the mighty US Army Pacific in Hawaii, which commands 80,000 US soldiers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his pitch Mr Hockey said the enduring image of stretcher-bearer Corporal Leslie ‘Bull’ Allen, from Ballarat, carrying a wounded American GI to safety in Mt Tambu in New Guinea during World War II “embodies the spirit of mateship between Australia and the US”.“To continue to highlight the long history of Australia and the US in battle, the Australian Embassy will host a series of major events, including a ‘mateship’ gala ball, commemorations and guest lectures in the lead up to 4 July 2018,” the pitch outlines.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>REVIEWS ROBYN DOUGLASS, SHELLEY ORCHARD, ELLEN PHIDDIAN </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>419 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Northern Territory News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NORTHT</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NTNews</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">NONFICTION What is a <b>Refugee</b>?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">William Maley Scribe, $29.99 With the crisis about <b>boat</b> people out of sight for now, it’s time to consider what refugees are. Professor William Maley discusses this global epidemic with facts, cool accounts of the laws, and careful compassion for the individuals caught in the rip-tide of war. Refugees, he says, are an ancient phenomenon, brought to us now by systems of border control scarcely 100 years old. Maley points out the challenges of marking borders in a world where there are no limits on business transactions; TV and internet access are endemic, and transport is cheap. It puts unbearable strain on the “credibility of the birthright lottery”. Maley gives a clear and readable account of the problem, but admits there are no quick fixes — and any solution that looks too good to be true probably is.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Verdict: excellent</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THRILLER Never Alone Elizabeth Haynes Text Publishing, $29.99 It’s a fantasy come true when Aiden Beck moves into a cottage on Sarah Carpenter’s secluded property in north Yorkshire. They had a fling at uni before she married his best friend, and she’s never forgotten how he made her feel. Perhaps the spark will be rekindled and, with her husband dead, children grown and finances rocky, she could do with some comfort. Aiden slots in nicely with her social circle, but he’s not quite what he seems and she has, herself, overstepped some boundaries. As her life spins out of control, her best friend disappears. Haynes excels at creating a sense of tension and believable dialogue. This erotic story of obsession and possession is a fine addition to the former police analyst’s thrillers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Verdict: thrilling</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SCIENCE The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World Michael Lewis Allen Lane, $45 Humans don’t think rationally. This has been a source of surprise for many, and in the 20th Century a pair of Israeli psychologists made it the cornerstone of an incredible research partnership. Lewis describes the discoveries made by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who changed lives with their work on decision making. The science is explained a little vaguely, possibly because Kahneman’s bestseller (Thinking Fast and Slow) covers their experiments in detail. But Lewis is an excellent storyteller, and has interesting material to work with. This research revolutionised economics, made waves in medicine and left a dent in just about every other industry.Verdict: fascinating</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>A family life turned upside down when war arrived</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>WENDY JAMES </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>976 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Northern Territory News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NORTHT</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NTNewsFeatureC</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>48</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Clive James said in a recent interview that “children always exaggerate”, referring to his first book Unreliable Memoirs . This could be true, but I believe early memories can be an accurate recollection of childhood events. Some people have short memories, but in my case I am plagued or blessed by memories from my childhood that my mother assured me only she and I knew. Whether or not they are exaggerated, I leave them to you.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BY WENDY JAMES</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I WAS born in Armidale, WA, in 1935. My brother John was 14 months older than me, so close in age we grew up like twins.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was the end of the 1930s Great Depression. We moved constantly to find work, and lived for several months on the Mundaring Dam site in a timber hut.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My parents then optimistically opened a pie shop in Pemberton in the forest area.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My dad was no cook and one of my earliest memories is of him with a tea towel wrapped around his skinny waist, covered in flour trying to make pastry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fortunately my mother made great pies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 1937 he was offered a job in Darwin with the NT Government Works and Housing. He travelled by flying <b>boat</b> and sent for the family to join him. This was the first of many sea voyages for us up and down the WA coast. We had no permanent home for quite a while and lived in three temporary houses. The first was in Smith St, two doors from the Victoria Hotel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a sprawling ground-level place with slatted bamboo walls. We moved from there to one of three cottages in Smith St, where Spillett House now stands. The third was a house on piers (elevated) with a lovely garden.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The big attraction to John and me was Frank the Aboriginal gardener, who wore a naga, a stick through his nose and spoke pidgin English.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John tried to push a stick through his own nose once, much to Frank’s delight. We finally moved into a house that became our home for the next three years. A small white building with slatted timber walls, a wood stove, an icebox, a well and a backyard lavatory.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was next door to my father’s office, not far from the railway station and the wharf, tucked under the hill where the Marina View office building now stands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At night we could hear clap sticks, didgeridoos and singing that lasted for hours.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These were peaceful settled years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A baby sister, Lorilee, was born in the hospital overlooking Doctor’s Gully, and John and I started school.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My parents loved Darwin and decided never to leave.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But things were soon to change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EVACUATION FROM DARWIN</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Their plans came to an abrupt end when the war became a reality and an attack on Darwin was imminent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In December 1941 the Australian War Cabinet ordered all women and children be evacuated south.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Protests were useless so our angry and stressed mother hurried us down the wharf to the waiting ship with a string bag each and the baby in the pusher.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Around 1000 women and 900 children were sent south by sea, road, rail and air, some to unknown destinations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some never returned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My father was co-opted into the Civil Construction Corp by the army. In 1942 the northern part of the Territory was placed under military control. He worked with them for four exhausting years supervising the construction of Army camps, infrastructure for airfields, and camps for the work forces building the Stuart Highway.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On February 19 he was near the wharf and saw waves of Japanese aircraft fly in and drop their bombs on the harbour and town.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He narrowly missed being killed that day, and on a number of other occasions. My mother Poppy, with three young children found life as a <b>refugee</b> in West Australia unbearable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With little money and few possessions we lived in backrooms, verandas, even an empty butcher shop.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Every move meant a different school for John and I.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eventually we were offered rooms in Bunbury and it was there my mother made her audacious plan to return to Darwin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How she did it I never knew, but John and I were bundled into boarding schools and she flew to Alice Springs with Lorilee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dad managed to smuggle them through Army Security posts as far as Dunmara Station, where they were stopped.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The station owner signed Mum on as a housekeeper and Dad was able to call in on his work trips.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A year later we were sent for and arrived in Alice Springs to discover we had twin baby brothers, Robert and Peter, born in the Army Base Hospital.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On August 15, 1945, peace was declared.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Everyone in Alice Springs went crazy with excitement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My father arrived in a ute in early October and drove John and me to Darwin. It was a fairly silent journey as he didn’t know how to talk to us. He took us to a two-storied house and told us this was where we were all going to live.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John and I rushed around investigating.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a mess; the staircase was dangerous, as most of the steps had been eaten by white ants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We managed to climb upstairs by edging up the side, holding onto the balustrade. Upstairs the heavy push-out shutter windows were closed, but between us we managed to prop one up and looked out at the bush and spear grass growing beside the house.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was six when we were evacuated from Darwin and 10 years old when we returned. ■ This is an extract from Life in a Burnett House by Wendy James. To read the entire story visit the websiteterritoryremembers. nt.gov.au.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost 18 months after 10,000 people packed into Melbourne’s Treasury Gardens for a candlelight vigil in support of Syrian refugees, those who have come to Australia from the troubled nation are finding that home is where they are free SYRIA was once a vibrant country, rich in culture and history, but in only five years, thousands of Syrians have been forced to pick up and flee their homeland for a new life in Australia. Like Australia, Syria had a population of about 23 million. But more than 11 million have been displaced since anti-government protests in 2011 turned into full-scale conflict.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to the federal Department of Social Services, 11,494 refugees from Syria have settled in Australia via our humanitarian program between January 2012 and February 3 this year. Of those, 6590 are in NSW and 2845 in Victoria.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The figures include Syrians resettled in Australia as part of an additional intake of 12,000 people from the war-torn nation and neighbouring Iraq, announced in September 2015. As of early February, 9382 of those extra 12,000 from Syria and Iraq have arrived.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Norma Medawar, a tour guide and English tutor in Syria, arrived in Melbourne in April 2015. To help Australians learn about her homeland, she has created the magazine Beloved Syria — Considering Syrian Perspectives with Susan Dirgham, who taught English in Damascus, and who was coincidentally Medawar’s first teacher in Melbourne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We want to show Australia that Syrians are similar,” Medawar says. “We have many things in common. There is, for example, the Anzac war cemetery in Damascus, and we did an article about that.” “Dirgham’s grandfather was in Damascus during World War I when he was in the 8th Light Horse, so getting to know Syria has been a heartfelt journey for her.” Medawar says many Syrians feel lonely and lost when they arrive in Australia. “They don’t have a good grasp of the language; they don’t know people here. That is why they prefer in the beginning to live around their community,” she says. “The other issue is work. It is very hard to find work in Australia. You need a long time to resettle.” She says Syrian refugees also fret about those left behind.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I have some relatives in Aleppo. They can’t go anywhere. They are effectively under siege because of the war, and people don’t have money. We are struggling. The situation is getting worse.” Medawar says the magazine is also about keeping hope alive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We want to see Syria strong again and to live a normal life as we did and as people do in many other countries.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ALEPPO HANNE*, 57, scrolls through her phone until she finds a photo of her handsome son Pierre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was 29 when he was shot and killed near a mosque in Aleppo in 2012. Hanne is speaking Arabic, but no translation is necessary to feel the depth of her love and grief as her tears turn to full-bodied sobbing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It breaks her heart she couldn’t visit Pierre’s grave because militia controlled that part of Aleppo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hanne’s husband, George, 64, son Elias, 34, and his pregnant wife, Shadia, 32, look on. Each is grieving in their own way for their homeland and loved ones.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The extended family arrived in Melbourne just before Christmas. They are staying with relatives in the northern suburbs until Elias finds work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Elias remembers the time before the uprising against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad turned into full-scale conflict five years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says that before the fighting, religion and politics were seen as personal matters, and Christians, such as his family, lived peacefully alongside Muslims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His family moved to Aleppo from the United Arab Emirates when he was 10 and his father’s work included driving school buses, running a garden decor business and being a tour guide, taking groups to Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It was a simple life. We work. Most of the members in the family used to work and find their path in this life,” Elias says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was working for Honda in 2012 when violence flared in the outskirts of Aleppo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We tried our best to keep calm and do what we used to do. In 2012, August, I lost my job, my company couldn’t go on any more because of the ways Syria was closed; they couldn’t travel between cities, which stopped our job.” He regularly visited Tartus, a city on the Mediterranean coast, to see then fiancee Shadia. In August 2012, he travelled there, but could not get back to Aleppo because all the roads were closed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“My parents called me and telling me, ‘Please don’t come back, because it is very dangerous.’ I stayed there (Tartus) for two months and that was the real start of the problems inside of Aleppo,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Elias says the cost of living soared: gas bottles increased from $1.55 to $60; bread from 10c to $3 and rents from $40-$60 to $465-$495 a month.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fellow Syrian <b>refugee</b> Norma Medawar translates for Hanne, who recalls the daily horrors she faced trapped in Aleppo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Sometimes their electricity was cut off for a few days; very, very hard,” Medawar says. “She used to see people killed in front of her eyes. And collected on a truck. Cut off their heads. Big truck, no heads, no legs. She saw them with her eyes. Terrible.” Elias says it was hard for his parents to leave because Pierre was buried in Aleppo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There is something in the heart, it tells them that ‘we don’t want to leave our son’. It was hard for us, me, my older sister (Etoile) to convince them to get out.” The family fled to Iraq, where Etoile was living with her husband, and they applied for visas to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is to save me. I got a lot of threats on the phone. And on the net — ‘We will know your place and we will come to kill you,’ ” Elias says, attributing the threats to “those who consider themselves people of the revolution”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says it has been hard to leave relatives, neighbours and friends behind. “We aren’t talking about material things. We are talking about something emotionally, very expensive to us,” Elias says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">* HANNE AND HER FAMILY ASKED FOR ONLY THEIR FIRST NAMES TO BE USED</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DAMASCUS TEN-year-old Alnour Rezai’s kitten squirms and springs out of her arms across the lounge of her Melbourne home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It represents a new chapter in her family’s life, one of hope and vitality. Alnour has no memory of the rickety fishing <b>boat</b> that carried her with mother Nayran Tebiei and father Majid Rezai from Indonesia to Christmas Island in 2012, after they fled the violence in Syria and scoured the Middle East and Asia for a safe place to live.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Alnour attends primary school in the western suburbs and it’s a testament to her fast grasp of English and sociability that she was class captain last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She is in grade 5, but misses her three brothers, Houssein, 20, Morteza, 17, and Mostafa, 14, who are stuck in Iran, their father’s birthplace.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The family was living in Nayran’s home town of Damascus when fighting between rebels and forces loyal to the Syrian regime escalated in 2012.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nayran had a coffee shop, while Majid worked as an IT consultant and translator. They had earlier given up a wedding catering business in Tehran after religious authorities objected to them allowing brides and grooms under the same roof to make arrangements. Syria offered more freedom and stability.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It was for eight years the best,” Nayran says. “After this, they announce you cannot stay there because my husband Iranian and I’m from Syria and no more foreigner in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“For my daughter, she was five, I want to register her for school, no more for her. The suffering start from there. With the school my boys were suffering from bombing outside. Every time they go in the morning, they see blood, they saw lot of killed people, they saw the burning bus for the school. It was stressful. With my husband, he start to feel that it’s not our place to stay.” The family fled to Lebanon in a van one night, in the hope the sectarian violence would blow over in a week or so.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We leave everything,” Nayran says. “I just collect my gold and my clothes and put them in a plastic bag and we came out.” A week later their coffee shop was bombed and they knew they couldn’t return. “I’m Sunni, he’s Shiia’a,” Nayran says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They sent their sons to Majid’s mother’s house in Tehran to continue their education. Nayran and Alnour went to Thailand, then to Bali, while Majid went to Turkey, Dubai, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and even Iraq looking for a safe place that would accept them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They applied for <b>asylum</b> in the US three times but were refused. They were running out of options. Leaving the <span class="companylink">UN</span> office in Jakarta, they were intercepted by a people smuggler, who offered them transport to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We decide to give the smuggler, each person $8000 and come for the <b>boat</b>,” Nayran says. “Four days in the <b>boat</b>, it was broken, no safety. But thank God we arrive at Christmas Island, then seven months at the camp.” Nayran and Majid maintained their optimism by volunteering. Majid taught <b>asylum</b> seekers English, while Nayran helped when the official interpreter went home at night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“After three months, we went to Port Augusta for three months and after that we come to Melbourne and from here start the journey,” Nayran says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since their arrival in Australia in 2013, the couple has been active in the community. Majid has taught computer skills to other Persian speakers at a library and delivered food parcels for Second Bite.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nayran has taken Persian cooking classes and helped with craft activities for the disabled and elderly at a neighbourhood house.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since being granted work rights last year, Majid has set up a handyman business and Nayran has trained as a childcare worker.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She also cooks for the homeless for the <span class="companylink">Salvation Army</span> and runs cooking classes and events with the social enterprise Free to Feed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But still the couple face hardship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Majid could not go to Iran to attend his mother’s funeral eight months ago, and now his sons are living by themselves. They are particularly concerned for Mostafa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We cannot get back and they cannot come. Every night we talk to them with <span class="companylink">Facebook</span>. But we don’t have money (to sponsor them) or support from government,” Majid says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HOMS IN 2013, university student Omar Alkassab was leaving a lecture when fellow students armed with an AK-47 arrested him and his two friends.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was taken to prison by the military, his hands were tied and he was hung from the ceiling. The walls of the cell were full of bullets, the floor covered in blood.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The smell of the room was the smell of death,” Omar says. “You hear other people being tortured and killed before you and they tell you, ‘You next’.” The then 19-year-old was whipped, beaten and tortured in what he says was just one of thousands of indiscriminate arrests by the Syrian government during the civil war that has killed 312,000 people since 2011, according to the <span class="companylink">Syrian Observatory for Human Rights</span>. But he was lucky, released after one day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I was thrown on to the road,” Omar says. “I was so exhausted, I couldn’t walk.” That was a turning point for the Alkassab family, and they decided to flee Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We would hear 300 mortars a day (and) see 10 funerals,” Omar’s father Abdul says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Omar’s younger brother Saad says, “If we stayed, we were going to die.” It was the second time a family member had been imprisoned and tortured. At 16, Abdul was jailed for 11 years in a cell the size of a classroom with 100 other people for, the family says, criticising the system which only allowed Baath party members to go to university.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Alkassabs had lived prosperous lives in Syria before the war. Abdul worked as a medical sales representative, wife Amal was a chemical engineer and they had four children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They fled their home in Homs for Cairo once Omar was well enough. After 11 months they were given a global special humanitarian visa, arriving in Australia in May 2014.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Alkassabs have rebuilt their lives since moving to Melbourne, thanks largely to a Scouts association, as Omar and Saad had been Syrian Scouts. Abdul works as a facility manager at a high school, Amal is studying to be a maths teacher, Omar and Saad are at university and siblings Yuser and Alma are at secondary school.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are so grateful for Australia and everything we have been given,” Abdul says. “Our country, our government took everything from us — took our freedom, our money, our health, everything.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Here we have been given everything back, freedom, life, work, money, safety, security, so it’s crazy to go back. Even though we were born there, your home is where you are free and happy.”JACK PAYNTER</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>On Manus, a small fish flounders</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was just another hot and humid day inside the Manus Island detention centre, more than 12 months ago, until a large group of detainees began gathering near the fences separating the two biggest compounds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"That always means a new worry and I went to see what was happening," explains Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish Iranian journalist who remains in what he calls the Manus Prison.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What he saw was a skinny young man collapsed on the ground and surrounded by security guards. He looked more like a little boy, with an angelic face and long curly hair.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Seeing him on the ground like that affected me profoundly and I kept thinking about him until I saw him next in the medical centre," says Boochani. This time, the young man was trembling in a corner, a security guard sitting either side of him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His name was Ali, though many of the <b>asylum</b> seekers called him "Little" or "Kocholo", the Persian word for small. It wasn't until later that Boochani knew him by the pen name he gave himself when he was plucked from the ocean on the way to Australia, Eaten Fish.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He had just turned 22 when he arrived at Christmas Island in August 2013, two weeks after Kevin Rudd declared that no <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> would ever be settled in Australia as refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even then, it was clear that Ali was different. "Eaten Fish is always wearing plastic gloves," says Boochani. "He is not only scared to touch people, but also things, even doors. Everyone knows him as a young man who is always washing his hands or cleaning his room."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also had a talent for drawing, and aspired to be a cartoonist in Iran until a cartoonist friend was arrested and taken away. And there was another thing. Something very bad had happened to him when he was very young.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In conversation with trauma worker Janet Galbraith, he had referred to himself at times as "Little Ali", who was 11 and good, and 12 and bad. "I asked if he wanted to tell me what happened when he was 11 and he said he couldn't," says Galbraith.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It took Eaten Fish a while to tell Galbraith that something very bad had happened to him inside the Manus detention centre, too: he had been the victim of a prolonged sexual assault by several detainees and he was too scared to make a complaint because he did not trust the guards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I could tell that something had happened as Ali was quite altered," Galbraith wrote in a private note last April. "His anxiety was extremely high and his Obsessive Compulsive Disorder also exacerbated. His showering was extreme and he was sending me messages saying he scrubbed and scrubbed until he bled."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was Galbraith, who started the group called Writing Through Fences to give <b>asylum</b> seekers in detention a voice, who put Eaten Fish in touch with the Guardian Australia cartoonist First Dog on the Moon. And it was First Dog on the Moon, aka Andrew Marlton, who encouraged Ali in his art and helped introduce his cartoons to the world. "It was very strange to be mentoring someone who is essentially in a gulag," say Marlton, who was struck from the start by the naÃ¯ve immediacy of the work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We have talked on and off on a regular basis over the last couple of years while he's wasted away, along with 900 other men on Manus Island. The cruelty he faces on a daily basis would have killed me two years ago, I can tell you."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last August, Eaten Fish was awarded the courage in editorial cartooning award by the <span class="companylink">Cartoonists Rights Network International</span>, who praised his ability to "keep up a stream of cartoons documenting the unspeakable abuses and excesses of the guards and administrators of the camp".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I congratulated him and I remember that, for the first time, I saw great happiness in his face," says Boochani, whose work as a journalist, writer and advocate on Manus Island has also won international recognition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the joy was fleeting as a cup of tea. Ali's medical records chronicle his deteriorating mental health, his terror at the prospect of another sexual assault, the fear of harassment and bullying by certain guards and his difficulty living in an isolation unit, the only place his safety was assured.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was in May last year that Ali moved to the area reserved for those with acute mental health or protection needs, where his every move is monitored. The notes of consultants report how Ali continued to find his situation "perplexing and upsetting", and how he saw "escape or death as a realistic solution".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In October came a removal order signed by Papua New Guinea's Immigration Minister, Rimbink Pato, followed by a notice from PNG's Immigration and Citizenship Service Authority that Ali had been determined not to be a <b>refugee</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This came as no surprise to Galbraith or Susan Ditchfield, a GP whose first contact with him was through Doctors for Refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Ali was unable to complete the <b>refugee</b> status determination process because of his illnesses and the panic attacks that were triggered each time he was expected to speak of what happened to him in Iran," says Galbraith. "Rather than being an indication of his not being a <b>refugee</b>, this was an indication of how unwell he is."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then, on Christmas Eve, came the news that Faysal Ishak Ahmed, a 27-year-old Sudanese <b>refugee</b>, had died from injuries suffered after he fell inside the isolation area not far from of Ali, who witnessed the frantic efforts of a doctor to save him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ali saw Ahmed taken away and was asked to sign a statement about what he saw, but he did not know of the death until he received a message from Galbraith that night. An hour later he began working on four-part cartoon that told the "true story of Faysal", completing the task at 7am on Christmas Day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He called it "Happy Bloody Christmas", and told how helpless he felt ("I could feel the pain he had inside but I could not do anything to help him") and expressed his anger at the ambivalence of the guard who told the doctor Ahmed had been "doing fine" before he fell ("Why would he say he was doing fine? He was not fine.")</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A couple of weeks later, Ali sent me a message introducing himself and offering a cartoon called 'How people die in Offshore processing centre' that attempted to sum up the utter hopelessness of the situation he and many other detainees face daily.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then, on January 29, he was told his allegations of sexual assault and abuse had not been substantiated and that he would be returned to the main compound where he says his attackers and harassers remain, prompting his decision to begin a hunger strike.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Eaten Fish has received a deportation order, but he wants people to know that he is not on hunger strike for that reason," the Greens' Scott Ludlam told the Senate this week. "He is on hunger strike because he has been the victim of sexual assault, chronic sexual harassment and abuse in Australia's immigration prison camp. He cannot bear the suffering any more."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Galbraith and First Dog are in daily contact with him, but so far have been unable to convince Eaten Fish to eat. In messages to me, Ali says he now weighs 46.7 kilos, which he says is close to the weight of Bobby Sands, the Irish nationalist, when he died in prison in 1981.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For First Dog, it is a bizarre experience, chatting on a messaging app to someone who is wasting away. "I tell him you'll get so weak that you won't be able to talk to me any more, and then you'll really be alone, so I want you to understand that that's coming," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"What am I to say? 'Mate, eat a sandwich, you'll be all right.'? I can't say you'll be all right. I want him to end the hunger strike, I really do, and I'm encouraging him to do that, but I'm not able to say it's going to be OK and you'll make it through because I don't know that."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The best hope for Ali is that he is reassessed, his protection claim is upheld and he is included in the resettlement deal with the US, where a network of cartoonists have committed to help him access the services he will need to recover. But there are too many unanswered questions, there is too little time and Ali's reservoir of hope has run dry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the messaging app, I ask Eaten Fish why he wants to die. He replies that he does not want to hunger strike and has "pain inside", but that this method of dying gave him the chance to tell his story of suffering to the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I think you should give me the right to die and stop this torture and suffers and pains," he said in one message. "I have no energy left to tell my stories to Australians any more."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lifeline 131 114</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">beyondblue</span> 1300 224 636</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SuicideLine 1300 651 251</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MensLine 1300 789 978</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'Something very bad had happened to him when he was very young.'</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> charged over bank blaze</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GREG BROWN </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>169 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police have charged a 21-year-old <b>refugee</b> over a petrol fire in the <span class="companylink">Commonwealth Bank</span>’s Springvale, Melbourne branch in November, which injured 36 people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nur Islam, a <b>refugee</b> from Myanmar, was charged with 92 offences yesterday and was remanded in Melbourne Magistrates Court until May 11.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Islam was injured in the fire and had been in hospital since. Police escorted him from hospital to police headquarters yesterday, to be charged.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Among the charges laid by the arson and explosives squad were conduct endangering life, gross violence, intentionally causing serious injury and recklessly causing serious injury.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Islam came to Australia by <b>boat</b> in 2013 with hopes of getting a job to support his mother and sisters in Myanmar.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the days after the incident, said housemate Joseph Joseph, Mr Islam’s mental health had deteriorated significantly from the “jovial man” he first met in a Queensland detention centre.Police ruled out terrorism as a motive for the attack.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>‘Come back, all is forgiven’ Sri Lankan PM tells <b>asylum</b> seekers</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Tillett </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>239 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Second</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister has a simple plea for thousands of his countrymen and women languishing in Australia’s immigration detention centres or living in limbo in the community — “come back”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Visiting Canberra for talks with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Ranil Wickremesinghe said it was safe for <b>asylum</b> seekers who fled after the country’s civil war to return.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under the previous Labor government, Sri Lankans made up one of the biggest cohorts of <b>boat</b> people when border protection policies were relaxed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In one embarrassing case a <b>boat</b> carrying 66 Sri Lankans sailed into Geraldton harbour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The influx prompted Australian and Sri Lankan authorities to begin co-operating on returning <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Immigration Department figures show that more than 4500 Sri Lankans still have <b>refugee</b> claims yet to be fully processed, while <b>refugee</b> advocates believe about 170-180 are detained on Nauru and Manus islands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Wickremesinghe said while people had illegally left Sri Lanka to come to Australia, they would be welcomed back and not be prosecuted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said even the TNA, Sri Lanka’s main political grouping for the Tamil minority, wanted Tamils to return. “Come back,” he said. “All is forgiven.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the <b>Refugee</b> Action Coalition’s spokesman, Ian Rintoul, cast doubt on Mr Wickremesinghe’s claim that it was safe for <b>asylum</b> seekers to go back to Sri Lanka.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Migration | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | srilan : Sri Lanka | auscap : Australian Capital Territory | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indsubz : Indian Subcontinent | sasiaz : Southern Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020170215ed2g0001h</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SHD0000020170211ed2c0001s" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>World</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The war against Arab LGBTIs</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Farid Farid </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>942 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Homosexuality isn't a crime, a judge rules, but hate goes on, Farid Farid writes from Cairo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Handcuffed for three days in a van by the Syrian regime, Rania kept reminding herself that she was born this way.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The van was transferring her to al-Thawra in Syria in November 2010. She was being deported from Lebanon after spending more than 50 days in two prisons because she had made the physical shift to being a transgender woman, a punishable crime under Lebanon's vague penal code. When the Syrian uprising erupted in 2011, Rania again escaped across the border to Lebanon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But in August 2015, the make-up artist was stopped on her way to a friend's house in Beirut, harassed and shoved into a police van, again, with six transgender women and a man after neighbours complained about their appearance. She was one of two Syrian transgender women arrested. "I wish I would have hopped on a <b>boat</b> on the [Mediterranean] sea when the war started in Syria and I would have died or gone on to a better life," she told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> on the phone from Beirut. "It's better than living here and dying a million deaths daily."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rania, 33, who gave her first name only for fear of repercussions against her family in Syria, was part of a landmark case in January in which a Lebanese judge ruled that homosexuality was not a crime but rather a personal choice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The case - brought by Helem, a leading group advocating for the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in Lebanon, on behalf of transgender women and men - disputed the legality of their arrest in Dora, Beirut, by the Internal Security Forces.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his judgment, District Court Judge Rabih Maalouf provided a distinct interpretation of Article 534 of the country's penal code, which "prohibits sexual intercourse against nature", by invoking Article 183, which enshrines personal freedoms as a right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's the fourth ruling of its kind in recent years but it is extraordinary because it adopted a solid legal approach for future cases," said Helem director Genwa Samhat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Samar Habib, an Australian academic based in the United States who has written extensively about LGBT rights in the Arab world, sees Maalouf's January 26 ruling as "critical to the ongoing agitations of activists in Lebanon to decriminalise homosexuality".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The contest, however, is going to be over the legislative system's willingness to enshrine anti-discrimination laws explicitly," she told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>. "There is tremendous resistance against this. It is seen as a threat."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The verdict has caused uproar in Lebanon but has gained support from popular culture icons with huge followings in the Arab world, such as singer Carole Samaha.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While homosexuality is punishable by death in Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, in Lebanon it is not explicitly outlawed. But it is still considered a criminal act. The ambiguous wording of the penal code has been used to prosecute those suspected of homosexuality, such as Rania, leaving interpretation of the law to individual judges. Even though transgender women do not identify as homosexual, the code has ensnared members of the transgender community, as well as gay people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, in 2009, Judge Mounir Soliman of the Batroun Court ruled that consensual relations between members of the same sex were not unnatural. In 2014, Judge Naji El Dahdah of Jdeideh Court dismissed a case against a transgender woman for having relations with a man.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year, <span class="companylink">Human Rights Watch</span> documented how one Syrian <b>refugee</b> was tortured at the hands of the Lebanese security apparatus through forced anal examinations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Such cases are symptomatic of a wider, violent crackdown in the Arab world towards LGBT individuals in recent years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Islamic State has killed at least 36 men by shoving them off buildings for homosexuality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Rania, societal resistance to her is a daily reality she faces in relatively tolerant parts of Beirut. She recounted to <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> several incidents in which she was sexually harassed, raped and fondled because of her appearance. "Every step I take is filled with fear," she added.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She said her father had tied her upside down to a tree when they lived in Aleppo. Her brother gave her cigarettes so she would develop a deeper voice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Solitary confinement for 45 days in a Damascus prison in November 2010 was most traumatic of all: "It was an unbelievable [psychological] siege for me, like Guantanamo, as if I was a criminal."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even as a <b>refugee</b> registered with the <span class="companylink">UN</span>, Rania has lived a precarious existence in Lebanon since April 2011, when she escaped Syria after the uprising turned bloody.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Our lives are more endangered than other citizens' because of how we look and because we are refugees. Most people just don't understand us."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to a global study by the <span class="companylink">Pew Research Centre</span>, more than 80 per cent of Lebanese view homosexuality unfavourably, hardened attitudes that can be attributed to conservative religious institutions, Christian and Muslim alike.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even as activists cautiously celebrate the January ruling, Rania is not optimistic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is ink on paper at this point. No one is enforcing the laws on the books," she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rania is adamant that she must seek <b>asylum</b> outside Lebanon as the situation in Syria deteriorates and daily harassment in Lebanon continues unabated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We escaped war, death and terrorism but maybe we should have stayed, because no one accepts us ... We are treated worse than animals. Where should we live? In the desert or thrown in the middle of the sea?"</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ghara : Harassment | gcrim : Crime/Legal Action | gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>leban : Lebanon | syria : Syria | beirut : Beirut | sydney : Sydney | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | meastz : Middle East | medz : Mediterranean | nswals : New South Wales | wasiaz : Western Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SHD0000020170211ed2c0001s</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-NEHR000020170209ed2a0001h" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Treasured baths in desperate need of a tub</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>944 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">NEWCASTLE'S ocean baths are a great facility and Novocastrians are lucky to have them, particularly in this heatwave.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, the facilities, particularly the toilets, are appalling. It's like something you might expect in a <b>refugee</b> camp.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I've proudly taken overseas visitors to the baths, and have then been embarrassed by the changerooms, and the toilets without any soap.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a health hazard and would not pass muster with any occupational health and safety inspection. What is the council thinking to leave a facility in this state?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I know council is capable of better - the Blackbutt Reserve facilities are superior by far. Clean, fresh, and with soap dispensers so family hygiene practices can be reinforced.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Further, although the baths themselves are emptied and cleaned every Thursday, the water was murky and smelly by Monday last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The facade of the baths is certainly attractive and reflective of an era, but it needs to be cared for on the inside. The propped up facade at the Nobbys Beach end was the women's dressing rooms in the past, and it needs to be re-established as such.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Is this sad state of affairs what we want the world to see when in November when the V8 Supercars races are held?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHEN it comes to stupid ideas, the idea of racing V8s through Newcastle East doesn't quite match the brain-blistering stupidity of tearing up the rail line or encumbering container movements through the port with a $100 each surcharge to be paid to private interests.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it is still mighty stupid, especially when you consider that the neighbourhood doesn't want it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the Herald's coverage of these folk venting their displeasure, much was made of a young woman from Maryland who thought the race was a glorious idea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps the contest would be better held in Maryland. Everyone would surely be overjoyed at the smell of burning rubber and the roaring of petrol guzzling engines. The circuit could run on Maryland Drive and Minmi Road, with lots of curves and hills and thrills and spills.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Or, in a generous act of civic sharing, the race could follow a circuit through Tarro, Beresfield and Woodberry where the residents would be so happy at having the usual late-night adventures stretched into daylight hours.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This way Maitland and Newcastle could each benefit from the massive bounty promised by promoters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Oops, I forgot about all those inner-city hotel rooms and pretentious nosheries. The decision will simply have to be determined by the usual standards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SOME of our politicians continue to ignore expert advice about the rising costs of coal-fired power generation. (Herald, 3/2).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To argue whether developing expensive new technology to reduce coal-fired power carbon emissions as compared to the existing technologies and proven capabilities of renewable energy's emissions is a no brainer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The National Electricity Market's recent independent review clearly states consumers want to see change and that renewable energy can be secure and reliable. Importantly renewable energy can be integrated into our electricity system.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The majority of Australians know in the long term renewable energy will be vastly cheaper and cleaner than energy produced by coal. I believe some politicians are simply not working in our best interests.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LAST year Malcolm Turnbull turned to Barack Obama in a desperate search for a solution to this country's political conundrum: what to do with those refugees who sought protection from Australia only to be incarcerated indefinitely on Manus Island and Nauru?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Donald Trump is entirely disparaging of the deal his predecessor did with the Turnbull government to take around 1250 refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull is insisting that it is a done deal, one businessman to another.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At some time in the indefinite future "extreme vetting" will be applied to the chosen candidates and some might be accepted by America. Those rejected will presumably be left to rot in the isolated tropical heat of Manus and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It seems that mainstream Australia will view them, stranded, all but forgotten and bereft of hope, as little more than a warning sign for those who would dare to seek succour from us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Should they venture by <b>boat</b> to cross the moat that circles our borders it seems we will do no more than sever their head and place it on a pike. For such is our welcome!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">JOANNE McCarthy's analogy linking the Catholic Church with a secular organization is unhelpful at best and misleading at worst, in my opinion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For any Christian, be they priest, brother or lay, the duty of care to children is far greater than any obligation under secular law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a sacred duty. Any abuse of a child was an abuse of Jesus Christ himself. The gospel of Saint Matthew, chapter 25, does not leave any room for debate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I WOULD like to protest about the picture of the statue of Jesus being put on the front page of Tuesday's Newcastle Herald in connection with the abuse of children in the Catholic Church.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abuse of any kind is against the teachings of Jesus. We are taught to love one another and if you love a person you don't commit any crimes against them including abuse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I DO not live, nor have I ever lived in the Newcastle East End. But I love 'old Newcastle', it is where our city began, with lots of heritage buildings. Surely common sense would indicate that the fumes, noise and vibration from V8 racing would damage them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No fun for the residents, either. Please, find another venue.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Changing the date so we can all celebrate</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1017 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">OVER the past few years, I have come to the conclusion that the date of Australia Day should be changed, and for the same reasons that have been well publicised.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The problem is finding an alternative date that has meaning.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The only obvious date is the date of Federation - January 1.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, this date has two problems. Firstly, it is the date that six self-governing British colonies united to form the Commonwealth of Australia, but still part of 'The Empire'. To me this does not reflect the Australia of today.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Secondly, it is New Year's Day and many people will be hungover.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I believe I have come up with the perfect solution - the only problem is that the date does not exist yet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The date is when Australia becomes a Republic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This date would truly represent what Australia is today, which is a combination of indigenous 'first people', people descended from the initial British colonies and immigrated from Britain thereafter, waves of migrants from Europe, and then people from Asia, the Middle East and then from all countries of the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia is the sum of these parts, and is not represented by the date when a British Naval Officer landed on these shores to start a colony.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This combination makes us who we are, and what makes us Aussie.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Being an Aussie is more than wearing double pluggers, drinking beer, and cooking barbies - as much as I like all those things.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Being an Aussie is embracing the Australian spirit, which is a sense of country, a fair go, mateship, and a bit of larrikinism, among other things.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These things are not exclusive to Anglo-Saxon descendants, but have been formed by all people of 'Australia'.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">America does not celebrate its British past, it celebrates Independence Day, the day it became self-governing and in its eyes a nation in its own right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">C'mon Malcolm, I remember you as the leader of the Republican movement. Make it happen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FOR the past 20 years, I have purchased a yearly pass to the Lambton pool.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maintenance at the pool has never been outstanding but lately - since it went into private ownership - it has deteriorated, in my opinion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I am particularly disgusted by the conditions of the ladies' showers and toilets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Management says it is the responsibility of council for the maintenance. Council says it is management's responsibility.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are four showers for hot and four for cold water. Most leak and cannot be turned off, the handles of most are falling off.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just as well we do not have water shortage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The hot water temperature is not much higher than the cold on a hot day. The water pressure in the hot showers, when all are in use, is so low that only 3 receive water of any consequence - the fourth receives none.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The toilets could do with a good scrub as all of them have a black bottom.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The fact that I have paid admission for the season seems to be of no consequence and I can be denied the use of the 50m pool if they book it for other activities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What I would like to know is - how is the pool supposed to be administered and who is responsible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I attend the pool daily in the morning for about an hour to stay healthy on the philosophy that prevention is better than cure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I READ recently an article about diabetics having to pay for the sticks they use in their tests.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I have medication that requires weekly testing and the sticks that I use are $169.40 a container, and there are only 24 in one container, so while it is not good news for the diabetics, I think they are still better off than me.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE Grandmothers Against Detention of <b>Refugee</b> Children Newcastle had much to celebrate recently at our weekly vigil held in front of Sharon Claydon's office.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed we were more encouraged than ever by the numerous drivers passing in front of us and tooting their support.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More importantly, one of our group, Sister Di Mary Santleben, had been honoured with the 2017 Newcastle Citizen of the Year Award.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Faithful as ever, she was among us with her baby doll in a cage - as are the babies incarcerated on Nauru, as are around 1600 people in total on Manus Island and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are so proud to count the Newcastle Citizen of the Year among us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Next month it will be one year since we started faithfully, persistently standing on this busy Hunter Street at a time of high traffic, dressed in our purple t-shirts, saying "NO" to the offshore detention of <b>asylum</b> seekers who exercised their universally acknowledged legal right to seek <b>asylum</b> when they fled their homelands for reasons of persecution, torture or war.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia calls "illegal maritime arrivals" babies born in Australia who have literally never set foot on a <b>boat</b>. Those children grow up deprived of a childhood and surviving in horrid conditions, in an unbearable climate, without hope, without joy, without toys, without a safe playground, without ways to grow up with the elementary security and happiness that every child needs to become a happy, well-balanced adult.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Their parents have lost the capacity to protect them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is time for the government to #BringThemHere, all of them, and allow them to heal and start rebuilding their lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We have inflicted enormous damage to these individuals, so it is our duty to finally take responsibility for them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We will keep our vigils going on a weekly basis every Thursday until the last of the detainees is freed. If you want to join us, please contact us on our <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> page - facebook.com/GADRCNewcastle - or turn up at any of our vigils. We will be there.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IT must be a bitter disappointment for the visitors onboard the cruise ships that visit our beautiful city to be docking opposite the grain terminal with limited access to the city proper. Surely there's a better solution.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Joko scheduled to visit this month as protest pressures ease</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AMANDA HODGE SOUTHEAST ASIA CORRESPONDENT, ADDITIONAL REPORTING NIVELL RAYDA </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>379 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesian President Joko Widodo will make his first state visit to Australia later this month, ­rescheduling a tour cancelled last November following protests ­demanding the prosecution of the Jakarta governor for blasphemy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Foreign ministry officials yesterday confirmed the visit would go ahead and Indonesia’s outgoing ambassador, Najib Riphat Kesoema — who had been scheduled to leave this month — would delay his return to help organise the visit.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Joko’s November visit had been billed as a high point following a rocky few years in which relations were strained by Indonesia’s execution of two Australian drug convicts, Australia’s <b>asylum boat</b> turn-back policy, and leaked documents showing Australia tried to eavesdrop on former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just three months later the visit comes at another trough in relations, after Indonesia’s military chief suspended some ties over the use of allegedly offensive material in a military exchange program at Perth’s Campbell Barracks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian Army chief Angus Campbell is due in Jakarta tomorrow to reveal the results of an internal investigation into the matter and try to mend relations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ahead of that visit Luhut Pandjaitan, one of the country’s most senior ministers and Mr Joko’s most trusted adviser, told The Australian the best way to keep relations nice was to stay out of Indonesia’s domestic affairs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Joko has faced several months of pressure from Islamist groups calling for the prosecution of ethnic-Chinese Christian ­governor Basuki Tjahaja “Ahok” Purnama, an ally of the President.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But with Rizieq Shihab, the leader of the Islamic Defenders Front group which has led the campaign against Ahok, facing criminal charges, the rescheduling suggests Mr Joko feels sufficiently secure to make the visit. Jakarta’s gubernatorial election, a fierce race now seen as a potential stepping stone to the presidency, will also be out of the way by then.Foreign Ministry director- ­general for Asia Pacific Desra Percaya confirmed the visit would go ahead at the end of the month though neither the program nor the dates had been fixed. “It is too early to tell, but (Mr Joko) will meet Mr Turnbull, that is for sure.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Sri Lankan war crimes swept under the carpet as BRUCE HAIGH country's government pulls back from investigation</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>785 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Strong and sustained calls were made for crimes to be investigated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to successive Sri Lankan governments the only war crimes committed during the country's long civil war, from July 1983 to May 2009, were those perpetrated by the Tamils; aggressive denial has defined their response.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The alienation of the minority Tamil population from the majority Sinhalese began in colonial times, when Britain sought to accentuate rivalries by favouring Tamils in administrative positions. After independence, when the Sinhala language was declared the official language, Tamils had restrictions imposed on their access to education, jobs in the public sector and professional bodies. A state-sanctioned pogrom against Tamils occurred in 1983, and many Tamils fled Colombo and the south for the north. The notion of a separate state was born as the means of surviving Sinhalese chauvinism. A military force was established to protect these aims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hit-and-run tactics and suicide bombings eventually evolved into a full-scale civil war ending in 2009 with the massacre of 80,000 Tamil civilians and fighters known as the <span class="companylink">Tamil Tigers</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were strong and sustained calls from the international community for crimes amounting to genocide to be investigated by an international tribunal, preferably the <span class="companylink">UN</span>. To counter the aggressive propaganda of Sinhala nationalists, the calls for international action included the inclusion of war crimes committed by the <span class="companylink">Tamil Tigers</span>. Governments in Australia have gone along with this in order to bolster their illegal policy of turning back <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b>. Returning <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees to a place of danger attracts a strong legal sanction known as sur place, and in this instance makes Australia directly complicit in the crime of genocide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The previous Rajapaksa government received support and assistance from Australia in prosecuting its policy of genocide against the Tamil population. An <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> contingent is posted to the Australian High Commission in Colombo to assist the local police and navy stop boats. There are allegations that the AFP contingent is aware that Tamils returned illegally from Australian custody have been tortured in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia supplied patrol boats to the Sri Lankan navy for the express purpose of turning back boats, despite it becoming public knowledge that President Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother, installed as minister for defence, was involved in the chain of people smuggling. On a visit to Sri Lanka in 2013, Tony Abbott, as prime minister, said that under certain circumstances torture could be justified, which was and remains an extraordinary statement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As foreign minister, Bob Carr, referred to Tamil <b>asylum</b> seekers as economic migrants, despite all evidence to the contrary. His successor, Julie Bishop, has done the same. Australian governments have adopted the fiction that the minority Tamils were the aggressors in the civil war. Their position is that Sinhalese won the war, peace has been restored and the Tamils must accept it and get on with life; which consists of a military occupation of the north, confiscation of their land, desecration of their cemeteries, rape of the women and marginalisation from economic activity; all against a background of bribery, cruelty and corruption.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That is not the finding of the Peoples' Tribunal on Sri Lanka, which met in Bremen in 2013. It found that, "On the strength of the evidence presented, the tribunal reached the consensus ruling that the state of Sri Lanka is guilty of the crime of genocide against Eelam Tamils [Tamils from the north and east] and that the consequences of the genocide continue to the present day with ongoing acts of genocide against Eelam Tamils".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The new government of President Maithripala Sirisena undertook in 2015 to allow an internationally supervised investigation into the massacre that took place at the end of the civil war. This undertaking followed a <span class="companylink">UN Human Rights Council</span> resolution on September 24, 2015, calling for such an investigation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, responding to growing pressure from within Sri Lanka, Sirisena has pulled back from implementing the decision. Visiting Sri Lanka in March 2016, the UN Human Rights Commissioner, Zeid Ra 'ad al Hussein, said it was important the investigation took place, so that Sri Lanka could learn from its mistakes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has not pressed Sri Lanka to comply with the <span class="companylink">UN</span> resolution, and indeed in August 2016, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton ordered the return of <b>asylum</b> seekers to Sri Lanka who had been trying to reach Australia by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bruce Haigh is a political commentator and former diplomat who served in Sri Lanka.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'There were strong and sustained calls from the international community for crimes amounting to genocide to be investigated, preferably the <span class="companylink">UN</span>.'</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> who fled PNG may face charges</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>467 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAGE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An Iranian <b>refugee</b> who tried to seek <b>asylum</b> in Fiji could face criminal charges after being deported back to Papua New Guinea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PNG's Immigration and Foreign Minister, Rimbink Pato, has also vowed to tighten border security after Loghman Sawari was deported from Fiji for travelling to Nadi on a false passport.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We will receive him and take the necessary steps to ensure he is properly questioned and, if appropriate, brought before the courts, noting he is a <b>refugee</b> who has had mental health issues," Mr Pato said. "Tendering false statements or documents as part of any application for a passport or travel document is a criminal offence in PNG. Breaches will be investigated and those breaking the law will be prosecuted."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">United Nations <b>refugee</b> agency</span> has expressed grave concerns over the welfare of Mr Sawari, who was 17 when he was moved to Manus Island after trying to come to Australia by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokesperson for UNHCR's Regional Representation in Canberra, Catherine Stubberfield, said that the agency was "profoundly concerned for his well-being", stressing that "after almost four years spent in harsh and isolating conditions on Manus Island, Mr Sawari's sense of helplessness and hopelessness is acute.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"<span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> urges the Government of Papua New Guinea to ensure that he is treated in accordance with human rights law and standards. The need to extend much-needed care to this extremely vulnerable young man is critical."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trauma worker Janet Galbraith has also appealed for Mr Sawari to be offered sanctuary in another country, saying: "Having spoken with Loghman many times since he arrived in Fiji, I believe that this is the end for him. He is unable to survive any longer in this brutal and abusive system. His emotional and mental health have been fragile for a long time and none more so than now."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Friends and supporters of Mr Sawari have not heard from him since he was taken from a plane at Port Moresby airport on Friday for questioning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The director of Fiji's Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission, Ashwin Raj, said the deportation was in clear breach of international law and had "the possibility of exposing him to inhuman and degrading treatment".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The deportation of Mr Sawari raises fundamental questions about Fiji's capacity to balance the imperatives of national security with its international human rights obligations," Mr Raj said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Sawari flew to Fiji under a false name last week, telling <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> it was his final attempt to be free. "If I go back (to PNG) they will make me crazy or they put me in the jail. I'm sure about that," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was 17 when he was transferred to Manus Island in August 2013.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE DIPLOMATIC SPAT BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND MALCOLM TURNBULL HAS BEEN LIKENED TO A LOVERS’ QUARREL IN A LONG-TERM MARRIAGE, WRITES NATASHA BITA</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘A very big personality” is how Malcolm Turnbull chose to describe straight-shooting American president Donald Trump yesterday.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister was more tactful than Mr Trump, who publicly humiliated him this week over Australia’s “dumb deal” to send 1250 refugees to the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Trump’s tantrum exposed his contempt for the conventional rules of diplomacy, and was widely interpreted as a show of disrespect for the US-Australian alliance that has endured 77 years of war and peace. But the bottom line is Mr Turnbull got what he wanted — and Mr Trump got to save face.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The terse phone call between the two leaders — the self-made American billionaire and the erudite Australian entrepreneur — was supposed to last an hour on Sunday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Trump, clearly annoyed and frustrated, cut it short.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For 25 minutes, he had digested Mr Turnbull’s unpalatable proposition that America should take 1250 refugees stranded on Manus Island and Nauru. Mr Trump begrudgingly agreed to honour the agreement made by his predecessor Barack Obama to take the refugees — subject to “very very strict” US security vetting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The outcome was a political win for Mr Turnbull, who is desperate to resettle the Middle Eastern and African refugees without letting them live in Australia. But the timing could not have been worse for Mr Trump, who just days earlier had signed an executive order suspending <b>refugee</b> admissions from seven Muslim-majority nations for 120 days. How could he now justify taking in the Muslim refugees Australia had rejected? True to form, the American president took to <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> , pitching straight to his conservative, working-class support base. “Do you believe it?’’ he tweeted. “The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal?” In the ensuing firestorm, Mr Turnbull steadfastly refused to criticise Mr Trump or to comment on their “frank and forthright” conversation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Our concern was that the <b>refugee</b> resettlement deal that we’d done with President Obama would be continued under President Trump,” he told John Laws on Radio 2SM yesterday. “It’s obviously a deal he wouldn’t have done. He’s expressed his views about it. But he has committed to doing it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So from my point of view, acting in Australia’s interests, we secured the commitment from the US President that we wanted, and we thank him for making that commitment.” Mr Trump extended an olive branch yesterday, declaring that “I have a lot of respect for Australia, I love Australia as a country”. But he also inferred that Australia was “taking advantage” of the US. “The world is in trouble, but we’re going to straighten it out, OK?” he told the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington yesterday. “That’s what I do — I fix things. When you hear about the tough phone calls I’m having, don’t worry about it. We have to be tough. We’re taken advantage of by every nation in the world, virtually. It’s not going to happen anymore.” Republican senator John McCain was more diplomatic, describing the dispute as “unnecessary and harmful”. He phoned Australia’s ambassador to the US Joe Hockey yesterday to express his “unwavering support” for the US-Australia alliance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Australia fought alongside us in wars, including losing over 500 brave Australians in the Vietnam War, which some of us remember,” Mr McCain told <span class="companylink">CNN</span> . “This, in my view, was an unnecessary and, frankly, harmful open dispute over an issue which is not nearly as important as United States-Australian co-operation, working together, including training of our marines in Australia and other areas of military co-operation and intelligence.’’ Mr McCain, who chairs the <span class="companylink">US Senate armed services committee</span> , noted that Australia is hosting increased deployments of US aircraft, more regular port visits by US warships and critical training for marines at Robertson Barracks in Darwin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This deepening co-operation is a reminder that from maintaining security and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region to combating radical Islamist terrorism, the US-Australia relationship is more important than ever,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In short, Australia is one of America’s oldest friends and staunchest allies. We are united by ties of family and friendship, mutual interests and common values, and shared sacrifice in wartime.” Foreign Minister Julie Bishop describes America as “our largest foreign investor, our second-largest trading partner and our indispensable security and defence partner”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“As close allies, our dialogue with the US has always allowed us both to be frank and open about our views, national interests and shared challenges, and we look forward to that continuing,’’ Ms Bishop told The Saturday Telegraph yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">America is Australia’s biggest foreign investor, and the two nations share tight bonds in defence, intelligence and trade through the <span class="companylink">ANZUS Treaty</span> and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia sent $13.7 billion in exports to America last year — mainly beef, cars and alcohol — and imported $32 billion worth of American cars, aircraft, telecommunications equipment and medical supplies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A leaked account of the first formal phone hook-up between Mr Trump and Mr Turnbull, reported in The <span class="companylink">Washington Post</span> this week, reveals a rocky start to their relationship. The president reportedly accused Mr Turnbull of trying to send America “the next Boston bombers”, referring to the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon by two Chechen-American brothers in 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The stranded <b>asylum</b>-seekers on Manus Island and Nauru were detained after trying to reach Australia by <b>boat</b>. Many came from Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Somalia — the very countries subjected to Trump’s immigration freeze.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 1250 <b>boat</b> people are not “illegal immigrants” because they have been assessed as genuine refugees fleeing persecution in their homeland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Australia is refusing to take them due to a bipartisan policy designed to stop people-smuggling whereby “<b>asylum</b> seekers who come here by <b>boat</b> without a visa will never be settled in Australia”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia’s former ambassador to Washington, former Labor leader Kim Beazley, says that given Mr Trump’s hardline stance on Muslim refugees, it’s “no wonder he’s venting”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd — who banished the refugees to Nauru and Manus Island in 2013 — reckons the US-Australian alliance will survive the leaders’ tiff.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The US-Australia relationship is big enough, old enough and ugly enough to cope with this snafu,” Mr Rudd told <span class="companylink">CNN</span> .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When I was prime minister of Australia, I came into office with president Bush, who was a strong proponent of the Iraq war.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I was a bitter opponent of the war from the get-go, and we had some testy and difficult times. These things come and they go.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The key thing, I think, is the fundamentals of this alliance has survived 14 US presidents, 14 Australian prime ministers, both sides of politics, and will keep going in the future because we have mutual interests at stake.” This is hardly the first tiff between Australian and American leaders since the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1940.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wartime prime minister John Curtin clashed with president Franklin Roosevelt over the deployment of Australian troops returning from the Middle East. Then Richard Nixon and Gough Whitlam fell out over the Vietnam War, with US secretary of state Henry Kissinger privately referring to the forthright Australian leader as a “bastard”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Niels Marquardt, chief executive of The American Chamber of Commerce in Australia, likens the relationship to a long marriage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s like a marriage where they’re going through a little rough patch — even a spat — but it will go back to a very harmonious relationship of mutual respect and co-operation, the way it has for 100 years,” he told The Saturday Telegraph.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marquardt concedes that the American business community in Australia is disappointed that Mr Trump pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement — a regional free-trade agreement between 12 countries that Mr Turnbull is determined to keep alive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition leader Bill Shorten says he has “some sympathy” for Mr Turnbull and insists Mr Trump should show Australia more respect.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This may surprise you but while I’m not a fan of the way Mr Turnbull’s been handling matters, on this one I think I’ve got some sympathy for him because, quite bluntly, I don’t think you can run an Australian-American alliance by <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> ,” he said yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Republican senator Bob Corker doubts that Trump will change his style. “The president’s a business guy,” he told reporters in Washington.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“You know, business guys kind of go straight to the issue, and I think it’s something that will probably continue for some time.” Mr Trump himself has some advice on negotiating tactics which Mr Turnbull may find useful for their next encounter.“The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it,” Mr Trump writes in his biography The Art Of The Deal. “That makes the other guy smell blood, and then you’re dead.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE DIPLOMATIC SPAT BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND MALCOLM TURNBULL HAS BEEN LIKENED TO A LOVERS’ QUARREL IN A LONG-TERM MARRIAGE, WRITES NATASHA BITA</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘A very big personality” is how Malcolm Turnbull chose to describe straight-shooting American President Donald Trump yesterday.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister was more tactful than Trump, who publicly humiliated him this week over Australia’s “dumb deal” to send 1250 refugees to the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump’s tantrum exposed his contempt for the conventional rules of diplomacy, and was widely interpreted as a show of disrespect for the US-Australian alliance that has endured 77 years of war and peace. But the bottom line is Turnbull got what he wanted — and Trump got to save face.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The terse phone call between the two leaders — the self-made American billionaire and the erudite Australian entrepreneur — was supposed to last an hour on Sunday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump, clearly annoyed and frustrated, cut it short.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For 25 minutes, he had digested Turnbull’s unpalatable proposition that America should take 1250 refugees stranded on Manus Island and Nauru. Trump begrudgingly agreed to honour the agreement made by his predecessor Barack Obama to take the refugees — subject to “very, very strict” US security vetting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The outcome was a political win for Mr Turnbull, who is desperate to resettle the Middle Eastern and African refugees without letting them live in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the timing could not have been worse for Trump, who just days earlier had signed an executive order suspending <b>refugee</b> admissions from seven Muslim-majority nations for 120 days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How could he now justify taking in the Muslim refugees Australia had rejected? True to form, the American President took to <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> , pitching straight to his conservative, working-class support base. “Do you believe it?’’ he tweeted. “The Obama administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal?” In the ensuing firestorm, Turnbull steadfastly refused to criticise Trump or to comment on their “frank and forthright” conversation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Our concern was that the <b>refugee</b> resettlement deal that we’d done with President Obama would be continued under President Trump,” he told John Laws on Radio 2SM yesterday. “It’s obviously a deal he wouldn’t have done. He’s expressed his views about it. But he has committed to doing it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So from my point of view, acting in Australia’s interests, we secured the commitment from the US President that we wanted, and we thank him for making that commitment.” Trump extended an olive branch yesterday, declaring that “I have a lot of respect for Australia, I love Australia as a country”. But he also inferred that Australia was “taking advantage” of the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The world is in trouble, but we’re going to straighten it out, OK?” he told the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That’s what I do — I fix things. When you hear about the tough phone calls I’m having, don’t worry about it. We have to be tough. We’re taken advantage of by every nation in the world, virtually. It’s not going to happen anymore.” Republican senator John McCain was more diplomatic, describing the dispute as “unnecessary and harmful”. He phoned Australia’s ambassador to the US Joe Hockey yesterday to express his “unwavering support” for the US-Australia alliance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Australia fought alongside us in wars, including losing over 500 brave Australians in the Vietnam War, which some of us remember,” McCain told <span class="companylink">CNN</span> . “This, in my view, was an unnecessary and, frankly, harmful open dispute over an issue which is not nearly as important as United States-Australian co-operation, working together, including training of our marines in Australia and other areas of military co-operation and intelligence.’’ McCain, who chairs the <span class="companylink">US Senate armed services committee</span> , noted that Australia is hosting increased deployments of US aircraft, more regular port visits by US warships and critical training for marines at Robertson Barracks in Darwin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This deepening co-operation is a reminder that from maintaining security and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region to combating radical Islamist terrorism, the US-Australia relationship is more important than ever,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In short, Australia is one of America’s oldest friends and staunchest allies. We are united by ties of family and friendship, mutual interests and common values, and shared sacrifice in wartime.” Foreign Minister Julie Bishop describes America as “our largest foreign investor, our second-largest trading partner and our indispensable security and defence partner”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“As close allies, our dialogue with the US has always allowed us both to be frank and open about our views, national interests and shared challenges, and we look forward to that continuing,’’ Bishop told The Saturday Telegraph yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">America is Australia’s biggest foreign investor, and the two nations share tight bonds in defence, intelligence and trade through the <span class="companylink">ANZUS Treaty</span> and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia sent $13.7 billion in exports to America last year — mainly beef, cars and alcohol — and imported $32 billion worth of American cars, telecommunications equipment, aircraft and medical supplies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A leaked account of the first formal phone hook-up between Trump and Turnbull, reported in The <span class="companylink">Washington Post</span> this week, reveals a rocky start to their relationship. The President reportedly accused Turnbull of trying to send America “the next Boston bombers”, referring to the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon by two Chechen-American brothers in 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The stranded <b>asylum</b>-seekers on Manus Island and Nauru were detained after trying to reach Australia by <b>boat</b>. Many came from Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Somalia — the very countries subjected to Trump’s immigration freeze.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 1250 <b>boat</b> people are not “illegal immigrants” because they have been assessed as genuine refugees fleeing persecution in their homeland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Australia is refusing to take them due to a bipartisan policy designed to stop people-smuggling whereby “<b>asylum</b> seekers who come here by <b>boat</b> without a visa will never be settled in Australia”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia’s former ambassador to Washington, former Labor leader Kim Beazley, says that given Trump’s hardline stance on Muslim refugees, it’s “no wonder he’s venting”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd — who banished the refugees to Nauru and Manus Island in 2013 — reckons the US-Australian alliance will survive the leaders’ tiff.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The US-Australia relationship is big enough, old enough and ugly enough to cope with this snafu,” Rudd told <span class="companylink">CNN</span> .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When I was prime minister of Australia, I came into office with President Bush, who was a strong proponent of the Iraq war.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I was a bitter opponent of the war from the get-go, and we had some testy and difficult times. These things come and they go.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The key thing, I think, is the fundamentals of this alliance has survived 14 US presidents, 14 Australian prime ministers, both sides of politics, and will keep going in the future because we have mutual interests at stake.” This is hardly the first tiff between Australian and American leaders since the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1940.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wartime prime minister John Curtin clashed with president Franklin Roosevelt over the deployment of Australian troops returning from the Middle East. Then Richard Nixon and Gough Whitlam fell out over the Vietnam War, with US secretary of state Henry Kissinger privately referring to the forthright Australian leader as a “bastard”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Niels Marquardt, chief executive of the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia, likens the relationship to a long marriage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s like a marriage where they’re going through a little rough patch — even a spat — but it will go back to a very harmonious relationship of mutual respect and co-operation, the way it has for 100 years,” he told The Saturday Telegraph.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marquardt concedes that the American business community in Australia is disappointed that Trump pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement — a regional free-trade agreement between 12 countries that Turnbull is determined to keep alive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says he has “some sympathy” for Turnbull and insists Trump should show Australia more respect.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This may surprise you but while I’m not a fan of the way Mr Turnbull’s been handling matters, on this one I think I’ve got some sympathy for him because, quite bluntly, I don’t think you can run an Australian-American alliance by <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> ,” he said yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Republican senator Bob Corker doubts that Trump will change his style. “The president’s a business guy,” he told reporters in Washington.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“You know, business guys kind of go straight to the issue, and I think it’s something that will probably continue for some time.” Trump himself has some advice on negotiating tactics which Turnbull may find useful for their next encounter.“The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it,” Trump writes in his biography The Art Of The Deal. “That makes the other guy smell blood, and then you’re dead.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last Sunday a teenage boy - feeling trapped and hopeless - attempted to end his own life by hanging himself in a detention centre on Nauru. The Iranian-born <b>refugee</b> was reacting to US President Donald Trump's executive order, which authorises a temporary travel ban against seven Muslim dominated countries, including Iran, and a suspension of the US <b>refugee</b> program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The teenager, who has spent more than three years of his short life on Nauru, feared that he would never be able to leave the island because the executive order would jeopardise a deal brokered by Australia with the previous Obama administration for the resettlement of refugees from Nauru and Manus Island in the United States.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since the ban, there have been confusing and conflicting messages from the Australian government and the White House on their fate. While the Australian government has attempted to reassure the public that the US will honour the resettlement deal, a tweet from the US President sent on Wednesday night DC time all but confirmed that the deal was in danger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even if the deal is to be honoured, there is confusion about what it will in fact achieve.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The agreement between Australia and the US does not commit the US to taking any refugees. It simply requires that the United States allow refugees to express an interest in being resettled there. Even if the US deal was to go ahead, it may not result in any concrete outcomes for the men, women and children trapped on Nauru and Manus Island. The <b>refugee</b> deal has had a significant impact on Australia's approach to the United States. In contrast with numerous world leaders, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has declined to criticise Trump's executive order, presumably for fear that such criticism may threaten the <b>refugee</b> resettlement deal. This deal therefore, that may achieve little, is costing Australia its international reputation and Turnbull his credibility.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia does not, of course, need this deal. Every single <b>refugee</b> and <b>asylum</b> seeker currently held in Nauru or Manus Island can be brought to Australia tomorrow if the Turnbull government would allow it. Resettling refugees selected, transferred, detained, paid for and overseen by Australia in Nauru and Manus Island would give Australia back its voice and its ability to stand up for the values held by Australians including racial tolerance and abhorrence for discrimination. It would also spare the refugees from being at the whim of an at times erratic US administration and months if not years of further waiting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the Australian government believes that these refugees, who have been vetted and have passed security checks, will not pose a threat for the United States, then there is no reason why they should not be resettled in Australia instead. Turnbull's desperate attempt to secure this deal shows he may understand the importance of getting the refugees out of where they are. Nothing is stopping us from offering the men, women and children held on Nauru and Manus a home and a future in Australia. There is no evidence that the resettlement of refugees in the US is any more of a deterrent for future <b>boat</b> arrivals than resettlement in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The continuation of a policy that keeps vulnerable individuals on islands far from Australia despite the known harm to them is a travesty. The US-Australia deal is now little more than a distraction from what we know we must do. We do not need the US to take people we are responsible for. We can and should resettle them ourselves.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Azadeh Dastyari is a senior lecturer in the faculty of law at <span class="companylink">Monash University</span>.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Forget the theatre, substance matters</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Greg Sheridan Foreign Editor </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s actions, not words, that will define Trump</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under the presidency of Donald Trump, the theatre — and occa­sionally it will be theatre of the absurd — will often mask the ­reality.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That has been the case this past week, in which the substance has been almost exactly the reverse of the theatre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course, if the theatre is loud enough and goes on long enough, it can finally overwhelm the ­substance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week has not shown that the US-Australia alliance is fragile or needs fundamental rethinking. Instead it has shown just what a strong, robust, widespread relationship it is.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Consider what really happened. Barack Obama, in the last days of his presidency, authorised a deal to take 1250 refugees, many Muslim, into the US from Manus Island and Nauru. The Turnbull government, like the Abbott government before it, had declared that ­nobody on ­either of those islands, people who tried to come to Australia illegally by <b>boat</b>, would be ­allowed to settle permanently in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thus the American deal solved a policy and political headache for Australia. Underneath all the verbal high jinks of this week, Trump has declared several times, and his White House spokesman and the State Department have ­declared several times, that he is going to honour the Obama deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In substance, but not in theatre, two features of this are striking. Trump would have done this for no other country than Australia. And no other country than the US would do this for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is impossible to interpret all the tweets, statements and mixed signals of this week definitively. But one obvious interpretation is that Trump has bellyached at length and in public about how much he hates the deal in order to give himself cover with his base for implementing it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In other words, this is a deal Trump hates and would never have done himself, but he is going to honour it simply because of who it was with, namely Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So Trump is doing us a favour that he would have done for ­no one else. And we are receiving a favour from America that we could not get from any other country, and God knows we’ve tried almost every country on Earth to get someone to take the people on Manus and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than that, Trump has ­actually helped Australian policy in another way. The policy danger from the American deal was that it delivered a First World immigration outcome to people who had come to Australia by <b>boat</b>, whereas the whole object of Canberra policy is to make sure ­nobody can get a First World ­immigration outcome by employing people-­smugglers and boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The very fact that Trump has made such a fuss about this deal, and how much he dislikes it, and how it will never happen again, and how he would never have agreed to such a deal, means that there is very little danger of anyone, even the people-smugglers, thinking that Manus and Nauru are a viable future route to ­resettlement in the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump’s statements, which Australian opinion finds so disagreeable, will actually help maintain the deterrent quality of Australian policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Weird as it sounds, Trump has claims to be the injured party here. The immigration deal was ­apparently signed by US and Australian officials in September but not made public until after the US presidential election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From the Australian side there were some legitimate reasons for the delay. Canberra was determined to ­deploy a lot of naval ­assets and make sure people-smugglers did not think the ­announcement of this agreement meant a softening of Australian policy. This legitimately took some time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, it meant the deal was not announced publicly until after the election. Quite possibly, if it had been announced before the election no one in the US would have noticed it. But it would only have taken one alert American journalist to notice the announcement, and one question to Trump, or even to an authoritative Trump surrogate, to have seen the deal denounced by Trump, and then there would have been no chance at all of Trump honouring it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The fact it was signed well ­before the US election but then announced well after the election could lead Trump’s people to feel they’d been stitched up here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hopefully, they will feel they were stitched up by Obama, not Turnbull. It was Donald Rumsfeld who made famous the idea of known ­unknowns and unknown unknowns. We should invent a special category to capture the dishonesty and unreality of so many Obama deals and commitments: the real reals, things which were announced and would actually happen, which were very few; and the unreal reals, things that were ­announced but which would never actually happen; and the unknown unreals, things which would be announced with no idea whether they would actually happen. Obama’s <b>refugee</b> deal seems to fall in this last category. Is it possible Obama actually planned this as one of many landmines and booby traps he left for Trump?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For all that, the leaking of a disobliging version of the Trump-Turnbull phone conversation and Trump’s later tweet attacking Obama’s “dumb deal” are things previous presidents would not have done and have been somewhat embarrassing for Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But there is no serious criticism to be made of Turnbull in the way he has handled all this. Nor is this a remotely unprecedented episode of a president hurting a prime minister over something he doesn’t like politically.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Tony Abbott, when he was prime minister, was on Obama’s absolute speed dial of world leaders whenever he wanted a favour. Yet Obama’s egregious speech at the G20 in Brisbane about climate change was designed to do Abbott the maximum political harm. And it did do Abbott a lot of harm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Obama, flouting every tradition of consulting an ally and not ­embarrassing an ally and a host, gave no one in the Abbott government any notice of what he planned to do in that speech. He gratuitously and inaccurately ­attacked Australian policy. His speech was oafishly rude in that it was made in front of the Governor-General, Australia’s head of state, whom Obama did not even acknowledge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This was a calculated act of political malevolence against an ally with whom Obama disagreed on a matter of domestic policy. So how is it liberal opinion in ­Australia gave Obama’s words no significant reaction but is ­having a nervous breakdown over Trump’s?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course if Trump is seen to be continuously discourteous to Australia’s leader, or to Australia generally, it will seriously erode public support for the alliance, to which Australians are deeply ­attached as an expression of both their deepest interests and their dearest values.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump should take that seriously. But what was also fascinating this week was how many Americans came out to praise Australia and praise our alliance. Republican leaders Paul Ryan and John McCain were strong and clear in their praise of the ­alliance. Trump’s chief of staff Reince Priebus and his ideological guru Steve Bannon called Australian ambassador Joe ­Hockey into the White House to convey the President’s admiration and respect for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Respected commentators such as David Gergen, countless former officials, even pop stars, came to Australia’s defence. If anything, the week showed the opposite of what it is being said to show: it showed the depth and range of the Australian relationship across the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it also disclosed what we are going to have to categorise as a new medical condition: Trump derangement syndrome.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is evident most clearly in US liberal circles and in their ­analogues in Europe. Trump ­announced various immigration restrictions last weekend. These were implemented with extreme clumsiness and it took the administration several days to make it clear they didn’t apply to US permanent residents, to dual citizens like those of Australia, Britain and European NATO members, and various others.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The main restrictions were a temporary suspension of new visas for people from seven Muslim-majority countries that have produced a lot of terrorists and the temporary suspension of the <b>refugee</b> program. Both these suspensions are to be lifted when the administration has “extreme vetting” procedures in place that it is satisfied with.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You can argue that these ­restrictions are ill-advised or ­excessive. But they are similar to temporary restrictions Obama occasionally applied but without fanfare and which other countries often quietly apply. Yet they ­resulted in a demented overreaction from liberal America and from liberal Europe, whose leaders live in terror that they are going the way of Hillary Clinton at the hands of their own Donald Trumps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tellingly, they have majority support from Americans.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EU boss Donald Tusk declared America a threat to Europe. Two million Brits signed a petition to keep Trump out. This was all ­absurd overreaction. Trump had created a ­bureaucratic mess; he had not killed the firstborn of every family.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull was absolutely right not to join in this ridiculous moral panic and liberal anti-Trump jihad. And he would have been right to refrain from joining in whether we had a <b>refugee</b> deal at stake or not.Trump brings us many challenges. One of them is not losing our heads.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Monk led state towards peace</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>322 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>47</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THICH NHU HUE Venerable Buddhist monk Born: February 4, 1934; Hoi An, Vietnam Died: June 23, 2016; Adelaide</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE Most Venerable Thich Nhu Hue, one of Australia’s Buddhist leaders, was the first Vietnamese monk to provide Buddhist teaching in South Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Through his teaching, Thich Nhu Hue enhanced multicultural Australian society as we know it today.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From being relatively unknown a few decades ago, Buddhism in South Australia has become a widely-practised religion that many people have turned to for spiritual guidance and inner peace.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thich Nhu Hue was a <b>refugee</b> who fled Communist persecution in Vietnam. There, he had been an active Buddhist preacher, meditation master and a religious leader who campaigned for social justice, especially in central Vietnam during the late 1950s to mid-1970s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was born into a family of devout Buddhists and entered monastic life at the Chuc Thanh Monastery in his hometown of Hoi An.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After the Fall of Saigon in 1975, he was harassed and persecuted by the anti-religious regime. In 1981, he finally escaped Vietnam by <b>boat</b> and was rescued by a Japanese ship and taken to a <b>refugee</b> centre in Tokyo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 1982, he was invited to provide Buddhist teaching to the small but growing Buddhist community in Adelaide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thich Nhu Hue became the founding abbot of the Phap Hoa Temple in Pennington, providing for the spiritual needs of Vietnamese Buddhist followers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As chair of the Unified Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation of Australia-New Zealand, he also managed a large body of 40 local temples, with 150 ordained clergy and 150,000 devotees living in Australia and New Zealand.As one of the top spiritual and community leaders of the 400,000-strong Vietnamese-Australian community, The Most Venerable Thich Nhu Hue’s guidance, experience and leadership greatly contributed to progress and harmony among the 600,000 mainstream and multi-ethnic Buddhist individuals in Australia.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Settle the refugees in Australia - end of problem</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AZADEH DASTYARI - Azadeh Dastyari is a senior lecturer in the faculty of law at Monash University. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>631 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TALKING POINT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last Sunday a teenage boy, feeling trapped and hopeless, attempted to end his own life by hanging himself in a detention centre on Nauru. The Iranian-born <b>refugee</b> was reacting to US President Donald Trump's executive order, which authorises a temporary travel ban against seven Muslim-dominated countries, including Iran, and a suspension of the US <b>refugee</b> program. The teenager, who has spent more than three years of his short life on Nauru, feared he would never be able to leave the island because the executive order would jeopardise a deal brokered by Australia with the previous Obama administration for the resettlement of refugees from Nauru and Manus Island in the US.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since the ban there have been confusing and conflicting messages from the Australian government and the White House on their fate. While the Australian government has attempted to reassure the public that the US will honour the resettlement deal, a tweet from the US President sent on Wednesday night DC time all but confirmed that the deal was in danger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even if the deal is to be honoured, there is confusion about what it will in fact achieve. The agreement between Australia and the US does not commit the US to taking any refugees. It simply requires that the United States allow refugees to express an interest in being resettled there. That is, even if the US deal was to go ahead, it may not result in any concrete outcomes for the men, women and children trapped on Nauru and Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>refugee</b> deal has had a significant impact on Australia's approach to the United States. In contrast with numerous world leaders, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has declined to criticise President Trump's executive order, presumably for fear that such criticism may threaten the <b>refugee</b> resettlement deal. This deal therefore, that may achieve little, is costing Australia its international reputation and Malcolm Turnbull his credibility.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia does not, of course, need this deal. Every single <b>refugee</b> and <b>asylum</b> seeker currently held in Nauru or Manus Island can be brought to Australia tomorrow if the Turnbull government would allow it. Resettling refugees selected, transferred, detained, paid for and overseen by Australia in Nauru and Manus Island would give Australia back its voice and its ability to stand up for the values held by Australians including racial tolerance and abhorrence for discrimination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It would also spare the refugees from being at the whim of an at times erratic US administration and months if not years of further waiting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the Australian government believes that these refugees, who have been vetted and have passed security checks, will not pose a threat for the United States, then there is no reason why they should not be resettled in Australia instead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull's desperate attempt to secure this deal shows that he may understand the importance of getting the refugees out of where they are. Nothing is stopping us from offering the men, women and children Australia has held on Nauru and Manus a home and a future in Australia. There is no evidence that the resettlement of refugees in the US is any more of a deterrent for future <b>boat</b> arrivals than resettlement in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The continuation of a policy that keeps vulnerable individuals on islands far from Australia despite the known harm to them is a travesty. The US-Australia deal is now little more than a distraction from what we know we must do.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We do not need the United States to take people we are responsible for. We can and should resettle the Nauruan and Manus refugees ourselves. </p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Diplomatic friction highlights <b>refugee</b> treatment to world</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Georgina Mitchell </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>480 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First Drop-in</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TRUMP FALLOUT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the dust settles from the now-infamous phone call between Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull, the world's media is beginning to focus on the issue that caused their spat.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Donald Trump took to <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> on Thursday to call a <b>refugee</b> deal with Australia a "dumb deal" and declare he would "study it".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Do you believe it?" he wrote. "The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since then, media organisations in the United States, the UK and New Zealand have put the deal - and the 1200 people it concerns - under the microscope.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">Los Angeles Times</span> pointed out that conditions on Manus Island and Nauru have been repeatedly criticised by <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> and <span class="companylink">Human Rights Watch</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The refugees are the collateral damage in Australia's widely criticised 'Stop the Boats' policy," the LA Times wrote. "Many have reported that the biggest problem is the sense of paralysis at being trapped in limbo indefinitely."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another media site, Quartz, said the refugees were "languishing for years in offshore detention facilities". An interviewee described the detainees as being "held hostage".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In its explainer of the issue, news and media site Vox said conditions in the camps were "appalling".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Detainees have resorted to self-immolation to draw attention to their plight," Vox said. "Australia continue[s] to look for any solution that wouldn't require it to actually accept the refugees. That's where the US comes in."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Atlantic and the <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> also highlighted the plight of the refugees, the former in a story that asked: "Is the <b>Refugee</b> Deal With Australia 'Dumb'?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Although Australia accepted 13,756 refugees in 2014-15, the period for which the most recent data are available, the country's policy of offshore-detention centres for <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b> has been widely criticised," The Atlantic said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Times published a video diary showing the daily life of a <b>refugee</b> on the "hell-hole" Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, in the UK, the Daily Mirror described the conditions the refugees were living in as "pitiful".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The refugees are living under armed guard in squalid conditions - and getting cameras in to expose their plight has been near impossible," the Mirror wrote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2015, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton brushed off the <span class="companylink">United Nations Human Rights Council</span>'s criticism of Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We were criticised by, I noted, Bangladesh, by Iran, by North Korea. North Korea was my favourite," Mr Dutton told the ABC's 7.30.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Frankly, I think it belittles the <span class="companylink">UN</span> process when you've got countries like North Korea trying to lecture our country in relation to human rights."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With more people around the world becoming aware of the Manus Island and Nauru deal, it's possible this criticism could soon come from the US and the UK.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Massive tanTrump aimed at PM over ‘dumb’ <b>asylum</b> deal</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">US President Donald Trump has savagely ridiculed Australia’s <b>refugee</b>-swap as a “dumb deal’’, while accusing Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of sending America “the next Boston bombers’’ in what is being seen as the biggest blow to Australia’s alliance with the superpower since the Whitlam era.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Do you believe it?’’ the American President fumed in a late-night tweet sent yesterday at 11pm Washington time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Why? I will study this dumb deal!” Mr Trump’s <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> tirade came after The <span class="companylink">Washington Post</span> reported that he cut short a humiliating phone hook-up with Australia’s prime minister on Sunday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Declaring the US-Australian alliance “rock solid’’, Mr Turnbull yesterday admitted the leaders had a “frank and forthright’’ conversation about the <b>refugee</b> deal — but denied the President hung up on him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The call ended courteously,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“As far as the nature of the discussion, it was very frank and forthright. “I stand up for Australia’s interests — I make Australia’s case as powerfully and persuasively as I can, wherever I am.’’ The diplomatic dust-up spells trouble for Mr Turnbull, who conceded yesterday that he was looking at a “Plan B’’ of resettling the refugees elsewhere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Independent MP Bob Katter accused the PM of “buggering up our relationship with America’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He warned Mr Trump had not become president by being “Mr Nice Guy’’ and “won’t forgive and won’t forget’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition Leader Bill Shorten called on Mr Turnbull to come clean on the conversation, insisting the <b>refugee</b> deal was “in Australia’s national interests’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens scolded that “only a fool would take Trump at his word’’, while GetUp! accused Mr Trump of “humiliating the Australian Prime Minister and scorning the agreement’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">Washington Post</span> reported that Mr Trump had boasted to Mr Turnbull about the size of his election win and the crowds at his ­inauguration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The President spoke with four other world leaders that day — including Russian president Vladimir Putin — but told Mr Turnbull that “this was the worst call by far’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The US President also complained he was “going to get killed politically’’ for honouring his predecessor Barack Obama ’s deal for the US to take 1250 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru, subject to US security clearance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I don’t want these people,’’ Mr Trump reportedly told Mr Turnbull. He accused Australia of trying to export “the next Boston bombers’’, referring to the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon by two Chechen-American brothers in 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many of the refugees on Manus Island and Nauru are from Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Somalia — the very countries subjected to Trump’s Muslim immigration ban.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an earlier tweet yesterday, Mr Trump said that “everyone is arguing whether or not it is a BAN. Call it what you want, it is about keeping bad people (with bad intentions) out of the country!’’ The federal government needs to rehome the refugees due to the bipartisan policy — announced by former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd in 2013 and embraced by the Coalition — that “<b>asylum</b> seekers who come here by <b>boat</b> without a visa will never be settled in Australia.’’ Mr Obama agreed to the deal just weeks after Mr Turnbull promised to take an unspecified number of refugees, who hope to live in America, from camps in Costa Rica.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokeswoman for Mr Turnbull yesterday said the deal “was not a swap’’. “One (deal) was not done in return for the other,’’ she said. Nine News reported last night that Mr Turnbull convinced Mr Trump to honour the agreement by telling him: “I’m a businessman, you’re a businessman. A deal’s a deal.’’ Mr Turnbull yesterday insisted that America would still take the refugees, subject to strict security vetting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is not a deal that he would’ve done or that he would regard as a good deal,’’ he said. “I have a clear commitment from the President … and we expect it to continue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It wasn’t a commitment to take everybody sight unseen or anything like that. “It is possible that they could take a smaller number or a larger number.’’ Mr Turnbull conceded that some refugees might have to be resettled elsewhere, such as New Zealand or Malaysia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The only option that isn’t available is bringing them to Australia, for the obvious reasons that that would provide a signal to the people smugglers to get back into business.” Less than two hours before Mr Trump sent his “dumb deal’’ tweet, the US Embassy in Canberra said the President’s “decision to honour the <b>refugee</b> agreement has not changed’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But when The Daily Telegraph called the embassy to ask if the statement was still valid, it was told to “call the White House”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier yesterday, the White House press office appeared to backflip in a statement to the ABC that “the President is still considering whether or not he will move forward with this deal at this time’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This contradicted a statement from the <span class="companylink">US State Department</span> that “out of respect for close ties to our Australian ally and friend, we will honour the agreement’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The phone fracas is thought to be the biggest blow to US-Australian relations since former Labor PM Gough Whitlam attacked President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s over the end of the Vietnam War.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE US PRESIDENT TALKED TO THE FOLLOWING WORLD LEADERS: Vladimir Putin (RUSSIA) Shinzo Abe (Japan) Angela Merkel (Germany) Enrique Pena Nieto (Mexico)But this was “THE WORST CALL BY FAR”</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE US PRESIDENT TALKED TO THE FOLLOWING WORLD LEADERS: VLADIMIR PUTIN (RUSSIA) SHINZO ABE (JAPAN) ANGELA MERKEL (GERMANY) ENRIQUE PENA NIETO (MEXICO) BUT THIS WAS “THE WORST CALL BY FAR” (TO MALCOLM TURNBULL )</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">US President Donald Trump has savagely ridiculed Australia’s <b>refugee</b>-swap as a “dumb deal’’, while accusing Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of sending America “the next Boston bombers’’ in what is being seen as the biggest blow to Australia’s alliance with the superpower since the Whitlam era.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Do you believe it?’’ the American President fumed in a late-night tweet sent yesterday at 11pm Washington time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Why? I will study this dumb deal!” Mr Trump’s <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> tirade came after The <span class="companylink">Washington Post</span> reported that he cut short a humiliating phone hook-up with Australia’s prime minister on Sunday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Declaring the US-Australian alliance “rock solid’’, Mr Turnbull yesterday admitted the leaders had a “frank and forthright’’ conversation about the <b>refugee</b> deal — but denied the President hung up on him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The call ended courteously,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“As far as the nature of the discussion, it was very frank and forthright. “I stand up for Australia’s interests — I make Australia’s case as powerfully and persuasively as I can, wherever I am.’’ The diplomatic dust-up spells trouble for Mr Turnbull, who conceded yesterday that he was looking at a “Plan B’’ of resettling the refugees elsewhere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Independent MP Bob Katter accused the PM of “buggering up our relationship with America’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He warned Mr Trump had not become president by being “Mr Nice Guy’’ and “won’t forgive and won’t forget’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition Leader Bill Shorten called on Mr Turnbull to come clean on the conversation, insisting the <b>refugee</b> deal was “in Australia’s national interests’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens scolded that “only a fool would take Trump at his word’’, while GetUp! accused Mr Trump of “humiliating the Australian Prime Minister and scorning the agreement’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">Washington Post</span> reported that Mr Trump had boasted to Mr Turnbull about the size of his election win and the crowds at his ­inauguration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The President spoke with four other world leaders that day — including Russian president Vladimir Putin — but told Mr Turnbull that “this was the worst call by far’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The US President also complained he was “going to get killed politically’’ for honouring his predecessor Barack Obama ’s deal for the US to take 1250 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru, subject to US security clearance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I don’t want these people,’’ Mr Trump reportedly told Mr Turnbull. He accused Australia of trying to export “the next Boston bombers’’, referring to the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon by two Chechen-American brothers in 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many of the refugees on Manus Island and Nauru are from Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Somalia — the very countries subjected to Trump’s Muslim immigration ban.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an earlier tweet yesterday, Mr Trump said that “everyone is arguing whether or not it is a BAN. Call it what you want, it is about keeping bad people (with bad intentions) out of the country!’’ The federal government needs to rehome the refugees due to the bipartisan policy — announced by former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd in 2013 and embraced by the Coalition — that “<b>asylum</b> seekers who come here by <b>boat</b> without a visa will never be settled in Australia.’’ Mr Obama agreed to the deal just weeks after Mr Turnbull promised to take an unspecified number of refugees, who hope to live in America, from camps in Costa Rica.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokeswoman for Mr Turnbull yesterday said the deal “was not a swap’’. “One (deal) was not done in return for the other,’’ she said. Nine News reported last night that Mr Turnbull convinced Mr Trump to honour the agreement by telling him: “I’m a businessman, you’re a businessman. A deal’s a deal.’’ Mr Turnbull yesterday insisted that America would still take the refugees, subject to strict security vetting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is not a deal that he would’ve done or that he would regard as a good deal,’’ he said. “I have a clear commitment from the President … and we expect it to continue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It wasn’t a commitment to take everybody sight unseen or anything like that. “It is possible that they could take a smaller number or a larger number.’’ Mr Turnbull conceded that some refugees might have to be resettled elsewhere, such as New Zealand or Malaysia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The only option that isn’t available is bringing them to Australia, for the obvious reasons that that would provide a signal to the people smugglers to get back into business.” Less than two hours before Mr Trump sent his “dumb deal’’ tweet, the US Embassy in Canberra said the President’s “decision to honour the <b>refugee</b> agreement has not changed’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But when The Daily Telegraph called the embassy to ask if the statement was still valid, it was told to “call the White House”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier yesterday, the White House press office appeared to backflip in a statement to the ABC that “the President is still considering whether or not he will move forward with this deal at this time’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This contradicted a statement from the <span class="companylink">US State Department</span> that “out of respect for close ties to our Australian ally and friend, we will honour the agreement’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The phone fracas is thought to be the biggest blow to US-Australian relations since former Labor PM Gough Whitlam attacked President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s over the end of the Vietnam War.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
MALCOLM TURNBULL BEFORE THE PHONE CALL “We have a great deal to discuss” “We are very, very close friends and very strong and trusted allies”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
DONALD TRUMP DURING THE PHONE CALL “This was the worst call by far” “This is the worst deal ever”Accused Mr Turnbull of trying to export “the next Boston bombers”</p>
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Malcolm Turnbull ’s mistake with the Americans was strategic, not tactical, and involved Barack Obama , not Donald Trump .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite the leak in The <span class="companylink">Washington Post</span> of details of an apparently testy and robust conversa­tion between the Prime Minister and the President, there is nothing in this that Turnbull has handled poorly or that suggests Australia doesn’t have a high standing in Washington.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The fact Trump will endorse at any level, and with whatever qualifications, a deal made by Obama to take in Muslim refugees — a deal that contradicts one of the main issues on which Trump won the presidency — is a message that under­lines the potency of Australia’s standing in Washington.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Too much is being made of Trump’s leaked testy language, confirmed later by the presidential tweet saying Obama’s deal on the illegal immigrants was “dumb” and he would study it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump spoke to Turnbull at the end of a long day and he was tired and terse. Turnbull was virtually begging him to honour Obama’s deal and finally Trump agreed, but then decided he’d spent enough emotional effort on Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We shouldn’t get too sanctimonious about the horror of leaks. It’s not only the Americans who do this sort of thing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Kevin Rudd connived in the leaking of a highly flattering, and factually contested, private conversation he had with president George W. Bush about the G20.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nor do prime ministers always have first encounters of loving bliss with presidents. When John Howard as prime minister went to Washington to see Bill Clinton for the first time, he got 20 minutes with the president, who wouldn’t even do a joint press conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Jimmy Carter hosted Malcolm Fraser, the Australian made such an impression on him that Carter kept calling him John Fraser at their press conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump’s reluctance to commit to actual numbers to be resettled in the US from Manus Island or Nauru is no different from Obama’s. The Obama administration gave Turnbull an “announceable”, a media event, a virtual solution to the resettlement issue which itself did not guarantee that the US would take a single person unless it was satisfied through its own vetting procedures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That Australia took a few people­ from a camp in Costa Rica as a quid pro quo is meaningless. There is no cost to Australia in substituting a few Central Americ­ans for others in its <b>refugee</b> intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the design of the deal itself is problematic, because it gives people-smugglers a magnificent new version of the old product they have always been selling, an immigration outcome in a first-world country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The battle of wills between the Australian government and the people-smugglers has been the deter­mination by Canberra to refuse to allow the act of coming to Australia illegally by <b>boat</b> to result in a permanent first-world immig­ration outcome.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia arranged resettlement in various third-world countries — not paradise, but places where refugees would certainly not be persecuted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The US deal represented a kind of capitulation from Canberra. It suggests that the old tactic of outwaiting the Australian government is effective eventually.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the US deal does go ahead, and Labor should get into government next time and abolish temporary protection visas, there is every prospect the people-smuggling business would roar back into life, with all the loss of life and threat to Australian sovereignty it brought last time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The other problem with the deal was that it used up way too much of Australia’s strategic capit­al with Washington for an issue of no real strategic significance. It is certainly a bad way to start things off with the new administration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Turnbull government, like most international observers, did not think Trump would win. Once the deal was done with Obama, and announced publicly, Turnbull inevitably had to do all he could to keep it going with Trump.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it has for the moment distorted our relationship with Wash­ington and become what we had the chance of not becoming — just another supplicant begging favours. That’s not the right way to approach Trump.Incidentally, Turnbull was right not to join in the hysterical overreaction to Trump’s immig­ration restrictions. Nobody ever said Trump would make life easy.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM’s mistake was made with Obama</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GREG SHERIDAN Comment </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>731 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull ’s mistake with the Americans was strategic, not tactical, and involved Barack Obama , not Donald Trump .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite the leak in The <span class="companylink">Washington Post</span> of details of an apparently testy and robust conversa­tion between the Prime Minister and the President, there is nothing in this that Turnbull has handled poorly or that suggests Australia doesn’t have a high standing in Washington.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That Trump will endorse at any level, and with whatever qualifications, a deal made by Obama to take in Muslim refugees — a deal that contradicts one of the main issues on which Trump won the presidency — is a message that under­lines the potency of Australia’s standing in Washington.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Too much is being made of Trump’s leaked testy language, confirmed later by the presidential tweet saying Obama’s deal on the illegal immigrants was “dumb” and he would study it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump spoke to Turnbull at the end of a long day and he was tired and terse. Turnbull was virtually begging him to honour Obama’s deal and finally Trump agreed, but then decided he’d spent enough emotional effort on Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We shouldn’t get too sanctimonious about the horror of leaks. It’s not only the Americans who do this sort of thing. Kevin Rudd connived in the leaking of a highly flattering, and factually contested, private conversation he had with president George W. Bush about the G20.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nor do prime ministers always have first encounters of loving bliss with presidents. When John Howard as prime minister went to Washington to see Bill Clinton for the first time, he got 20 minutes with the president, who wouldn’t even do a joint press conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Jimmy Carter hosted Malcolm Fraser, the Australian made such an impression on him that Carter kept calling him John Fraser at their press conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump’s reluctance to commit to actual numbers to be resettled in the US from Manus Island or Nauru is no different from Obama’s. The Obama administration gave Turnbull an “announceable”, a media event, a virtual solution to the resettlement issue which itself did not guarantee that the US would take a single person unless it was satisfied through its own vetting procedures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That Australia took a few people­ from a camp in Costa Rica as a quid pro quo is meaningless. There is no cost to Australia in substituting a few Central Ameri­c­ans for others in its <b>refugee</b> intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the design of the deal itself is problematic, because it gives people-smugglers a magnificent new version of the old product they have always been selling, an immigration outcome in a first-world country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The battle of wills between the Australian government and the people-smugglers has been the deter­mination by Canberra to refuse to allow the act of coming to Australia illegally by <b>boat</b> to result in a permanent first-world immig­ration outcome.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia arranged resettlement in various third-world countries — not paradise, but places where refugees would certainly not be persecuted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The US deal represented a kind of capitulation from Canberra. It suggests that the old tactic of outwaiting the Australian government is effective eventually.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the US deal does go ahead, and Labor should get into government next time and abolish temporary protection visas, there is every prospect the people-smuggling business would roar back into life, with all the loss of life and threat to Australian sovereignty it brought last time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The other problem with the deal was that it used up way too much of Australia’s strategic capit­al with Washington for an issue of no real strategic significance. It is certainly a bad way to start things off with the new administration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Turnbull government, like most international observers, did not think Trump would win. Once the deal was done with Obama, and announced publicly, Turnbull inevitably had to do all he could to keep it going with Trump.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it has for the moment distorted our relationship with Wash­ington and become what we had the chance of not becoming — just another supplicant begging favours. That’s not the right way to approach Trump.Incidentally, Turnbull was right not to join in the hysterical overreaction to Trump’s immig­ration restrictions. Nobody ever said Trump would make life easy.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Short on detail from the start</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROBERT BOLTON </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Diplomatic row</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>refugee</b> deal at the centre of the conflict was signed on November 13, after Donald Trump was elected President. It was one of the last major agreements the Obama administration put in place in the shadows of the outgoing presidency.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The US agreed to take an unspecified number people from the Nauru and Manus Island detention camps, provided they are classified as refugees by Australia and subject to vetting by American authorities. It was a once-only deal and the vetting process was upgraded to "extreme vetting" by Mr Trump in his phone conversation with Malcolm Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two months earlier, the Prime Minister announced Australia's intake of refugees would be widened to include people held in Costa Rican detention camps operated by the US. And it announced it would increase its global intake of refugees to 8750. But at the time Canberra denied this was part of any deal to shift the Manus and Nauru refugees to America.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The US also has detainees in the immigration detention centre of Guantanamo Bay who have family connections to Australia. It has been speculated some of these might be included in a <b>refugee</b>-swap deal although neither government has commented on this idea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are 900 refugees in Manus Island detention centre and 350 in Nauru with a further 1000 living in the island community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Washington has not formally specified how many it will take, it's been speculated there will be fewer places in the US than people in detention. Mr Turnbull said priority will be given to families, woman and children, starting with Nauru first. Canberra is said to be negotiating deals with other third countries to take remaining detainees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says he will not allow anyone who reached Australia by <b>boat</b> after July 19, 2013 to be granted a visa for Australia.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Smuggler 'Captain Bram' faces court</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jewel Topsfield, Amilia Rosa </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>515 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An infamous people smuggler known as "Captain Bram" - who was accused of organising an <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> trip that made international headlines when Australian officials allegedly paid its crew to return to Indonesia - has appeared in an Indonesian court.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abraham Louhenapessy, aka Captain Bram, was on Wednesday indicted in the Rote Ndao Court on people smuggling charges. He allegedly purchased a fishing <b>boat</b> and organised logistics for a boatload of <b>asylum</b> seekers to travel to New Zealand in 2015.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The case was dubbed the "cash for <b>boat</b> turn-back scandal" after Australian officials intercepted the <b>boat</b> and allegedly paid $US32,000 to the captain and five crew members to return 65 <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Captain Bram is facing between five and 15 years in jail. He was not one of the crew members allegedly paid by the Australian officials.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to the indictment, in 2015 Captain Bram was given 1.5 billion rupiah ($150,000) by a Sri Lankan people smuggler known as Kugan or Vishvanathan Thineshkumar. He was told to purchase a fishing <b>boat</b> to carry <b>asylum</b> seekers to New Zealand, fix the <b>boat</b> and organise the logistics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The indictment says the <b>boat</b> was purchased in Tegal Sari in Central Java and then Captain Bram instructed another man to recruit a captain and crew.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Between February and April 2015, Kugan and two other men assembled 65 <b>asylum</b> seekers from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar to make the arduous journey to New Zealand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>asylum</b> seekers, who included three children, paid about $6000 each for the trip.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Court documents say the <b>boat</b>, Andika, left Tegal in Central Java. The crew were stopped by Australian customs and shown a brochure that said: "You can't enter Australia without a proper visa and documentation."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two days later, the <b>boat</b> was again stopped by Australian authorities and its passengers detained for interrogation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In June 2015, <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> revealed an Indonesian police investigation had found the crew of the <b>boat</b> were paid $US32,000 by Australian authorities to return the 65 <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Since they received money from Australian customs, then it's proven that [the captain and crew] made a profit from another party," said presiding judge Ari Wahyu Irawan in January 2016, when sentencing the captain, Yohanis Humiang.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The cash payment scandal caused a diplomatic incident between Indonesia and Australia, and led to a Senate inquiry and calls for a royal commission.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The explosive revelations were never denied by former prime minister Tony Abbott, who said the Australian government stopped the boats "by hook or by crook".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian government issued a release when Captain Bram was arrested in September last year, congratulating the Indonesian police.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said at the time that Captain Bram had a long history of criminal people smuggling targeted at Australia, starting as far back as 1999.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Co-operation with Indonesia is essential in shutting down the people smuggling trade; together we remain committed to stamping out people smuggling, and preventing people risking their lives," he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Sub hunter turns sights on people-smugglers</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SIMON BENSON, NATIONAL AFFAIRS EDITOR; EXCLUSIVE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>732 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Air Vice-Marshal Stephen ­Osborne cut his teeth hunting ­Soviet submarines during the height of the Cold War.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was the early 80s, Australia was the aerial sentry for the US and the young RAAF recruit had just joined the 92 wing (P3-­Orions) flying the Straits of Malacca and the Indian Ocean.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Tensions were high, we were not only looking at surface … we were chasing submarines … chasing Soviet vessels,” he told The Australian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Twenty years later he flew his last mission in the same aircraft, as a navigator patrolling the borders searching for vessels of a different kind as the Rudd government struggled with a flood of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats after dismantling John Howard’s Pacific Solution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Today the air veteran, who served as commander in the Middle East in 2003 and worked on the Jindalee Over the Horizon radar, will become the first from the ranks of the RAAF to take command of Operation Sovereign Borders as the government ramps up aerial maritime surveillance of Australia’s northern borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He will take over Australia’s border control operations from Major General Andrew Bottrell, who is stepping down after nearly two years enforcing the federal government’s maritime <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy. “My view is that Australia is a generous country, it is built on migration, but there is a right and wrong way to come to the country,” he told The Australian before officially taking over the reins.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If you come the wrong way, you will be stopped … we will keep the integrity of our borders.” Air Vice-Marshal Osborne’s appointment is considered a reflection of the increased reliance on aerial surveillance, with the largest deployment of aircraft engaged in border control operations in the country’s peacetime history, which has been further heightened in advance of the US deal to resettle <b>asylum</b>-seekers from Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He will be thrust head first into a heightened sense of alert with people-smugglers well known for trying to restart operations on a false promise to <b>asylum</b>-seekers every time there is a situational change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton praised the work of Major General Bottrell, making the point that it had been 900 days without a successful <b>boat</b> arrival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I sincerely thank Major General Bottrell for his outstanding leadership of Operation Sovereign Borders,” he told The Australian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He has played a key role in protecting Australia’s borders, denying people smugglers a product to sell and most importantly, preventing vulnerable people from risking their lives at sea.” Mr Dutton said Air Vice-Marshal Osborne joined OSB at a time when aerial surveillance had become more important than ever in the defence net.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He will continue to ensure that any people-smuggling boats that attempt to reach Australia will be detected, intercepted and turned back,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Air Vice-Marshal Osborne’s extensive experience in the Defence Force, in particular maritime surveillance, makes him ideally qualified to oversee Australia’s border protection operations as its third commander.” He will oversee the transition from the P3 Orion to the new state of the art new P8-A Poseidon — a transition likened to upgrading an old <span class="companylink">Nokia</span> handset to a new generation iPhone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Major General Bottrell was insistent that there would be no change in direction or posture to the “ring of steel” defence of the borders under his command.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The message to people is simple; you cannot get through the defence framework that is established,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The threat persists … and we cannot to afford to take our foot of the throttle. “The message is that this remains a military led operation.” Since OSB began in 2013, there have been 29 boats turned back, carrying 740 people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The untold story, however, was the 68 ventures intercepted “upstream” in partnership with other countries including Indonesia, which amounted to 2200 people who would otherwise have been boarding boats. “Not one person had died as far as we know since we started turn-backs in 2013,” Major General Bottrell said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MAN OF ACTION Air Vice-Marshal Stephen Osborne * Born in Parkes, NSW.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">* Joined RAAF in 1982.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">* Worked as aircrew instructor, analysis officer. Subsequently served in executive positions. Deployments included the Middle East in 2003.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">* Awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross in 2004.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">* Promoted to Air Vice-Marshal in January 2017.* Married with two daughters.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Let Australia extend hand of friendship</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MOHAMMAD AL-KHAFAJI </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>444 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DONALD Trump’s ban on people entering the United States from seven Muslim countries isn’t new. In 1939 a ship filled with 900 German Jewish refugees was denied entrance to the US, and was forced to return to Belgium.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many of those onboard died in Nazi concentration camps. The world vowed this would never ever happen again, and yet here we are.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My heart aches for the thousands of Americans who are affected by this - stranded people who can’t return home to family and work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thankfully, Americans who oppose such regressive measures have organised, resisted, and vowed to unite against hate and race discrimination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Spontaneous protests have almost shut down airports. Millions of ordinary Americans are standing up and speaking out. There is hope.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Trump has chosen cruelty and division, his Canadian counterpart, Justin Trudeau, tweeted that anyone fleeing persecution and terror was welcome in Canada.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other leaders have condemned Trump’s <b>refugee</b> ban, while our Government has all but supported Trump’s “strong border protection policies”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has a choice to help lead the world towards unity, fairness and compassion — or cave to conservative policies which hurt families.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I came to Australia in 2003 as a 13-year-old <b>refugee</b> from Iraq and we had a warm welcome. My family has since called Adelaide home and I am grateful for the second chance at life, holding both Australian and Iraqi passports.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A few months ago, I received an invitation from the <span class="companylink">US Department of State</span> under the Obama Administration to take part in a leadership program in Washington DC later this year. This program is designed to create stronger ties between future leaders and to build mutual understanding on foreign policy issues. Building bridges, not walls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, because of Donald Trump’s ban and despite assurances that Australians with dual nationalities will not be affected, I still fear that I may be risking the humiliation of being interrogated at the airport and potentially deported.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We have started to see some worrying signs in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two months ago our Government wanted to introduce a retrospective ban on refugees ever visiting Australia if they came by <b>boat</b>. We have roughly 30,000 refugees with no permanent protection living in Australia with fear of deportation and uncertain futures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This cruelty is hurting our character, and risking our values of giving everyone a fair go.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We can do better. We can be a country that embraces diversity and gives a new life to Australia’s future business leaders, professors, Olympic champions, inventors, surgeons and teachers.MOHAMMAD AL-KHAFAJI IS CEO OF WELCOME TO AUSTRALIA</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM must find his voice and let in refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ELAINE PEARSON - Elaine Pearson is Australia director at Human Rights Watch </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>592 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 February 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Harmful. Discriminatory. Counterproductive. Wrong. Lots of words come to mind when thinking about US President Donald Trump's recent executive order to ban nationals from seven Muslim countries from entering the US, suspend the resettlement of refugees for months and Syrian refugees indefinitely, and then slash <b>refugee</b> resettlement to the US by more than half.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet Australia's Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, found no words at all, saying "he would not run a commentary on the domestic policies of other countries". He stands in stark contrast to leaders from Canada, France and Germany who have spoken out about the harmful effects of the US presidential order.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At a time when the world faces an acute humanitarian crisis, Trump's move seems irresponsible. It will harm people trying to escape war or persecution and abuse, not protect others from it. And, as Republican US senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham said, banning and ostracising people from certain nations will likely have the perverse effect of being a "terrorist recruitment" tool.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump's actions will have serious global ramifications. When human rights values are under attack, it is not the time to turn a blind eye to abusive policies. With our chequered history of a White Australia immigration policy abandoned long ago, and as a successful multicultural nation, Turnbull could have presented compelling arguments for welcoming those from diverse religious backgrounds. But in failing to denounce the executive order, he fails to serve Australia's broader interests in a global order responsive to humanitarian concerns. Trump's action, bolstered by Australia's silence, may encourage other nations to adopt similar prejudicial policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Turnbull chose silence, other senior Australian officials seemed to applaud Trump's actions. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop pledged Australia's support for America's "strong immigration and border protection policies". And referencing Australia's own abusive <b>refugee</b> policies, Treasurer and former immigration minister Scott Morrison said: "The President is implementing what he said he would do ... really, the rest of the world is catching up to Australia."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull could be reluctant to criticise Trump's order because of claims of double standards. Australia, after all, sends all <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b> offshore to live in uncertainty in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, where they remain vulnerable to abuse. And Australia is desperately clinging to hope Trump will honour a <b>refugee</b> arrangement with Australia, so Australia will be able to reserve some of those dwindling US resettlement places for some of the refugees it has kept stranded on Manus Island and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But this tail should not wag the dog of Australia's foreign policy. Of course criticising other governments will open oneself to criticism. But the best way of minimising those attacks is for Australia to end its own abusive policies, not ignoring the abuses and hoping another country will swoop in and sort out the mess one has made by creating a situation where treating refugees humanely is politically toxic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Turnbull doesn't want to let Australia's foreign policy be continually hijacked by immigration concerns, the best way is to treat all refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers humanely and according to law - that means ending offshore processing and not relying on the goodwill of other countries. The sensible and humane solution is to end the suffering on Manus and Nauru immediately by resettling those refugees in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Elaine Pearson is Australia director at Human Rights Watch.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>AND THE BAN PLAYED ON</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Matthew Killoran </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>595 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>31 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PM dances around issue as protests grow louder</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull refused to condemn or condone US President ­Donald Trump’s visa ban of citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries, despite commentary from other world leaders.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Turnbull yesterday confirmed Australia’s resettlement deal with the US to get detainees off Manus Island and Nauru would go ahead, though the timeline remains in question, given Mr Trump’s separate 120-day <b>refugee</b> ban.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pressed on Mr Trump’s controversial immigration executive order, which has been criticised as discriminatory by the leaders in the UK, France and Germany, Mr Turnbull said he would not comment on another country’s domestic policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have a very close relationship with the United States, and when we want to engage in discussions of this kind, we do so privately and frankly,” Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Our rules, our laws, our ­values are very well known. Our commitment to multiculturalism, our commitment to non-discriminatory immigration programs are well known. That’s where we stand. That’s our policy, but our borders are secure.” He said there had been no instances of Australian dual citizens being caught up in the ban so far, but if it did occur ­officials would take it up with the Trump administration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has not directly criticised Mr Trump, but promoted his country’s immigration policy as welcoming those “fleeing persecution, terror and war”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull spruiked Australia’s own successful <b>boat</b> turn-back policy, saying border protection was one of the issues he discussed with Mr Trump in their 25-minute conversation on Sunday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“(We) recognised that it’s vital that every nation is able to control who comes across its borders,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said that the Prime Minister’s silence on the ­controversial <b>refugee</b> and seven-nation bans could be ­interpreted as agreement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“For that reason, I need to say Mr Trump’s ban on refugees based upon their religion or country is appalling and ought to be ended as soon as possible,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I urge Malcolm Turnbull to reconsider what our ­nation’s position ought to be and rethink what he should be ­saying on our behalf.” Mr Shorten was openly critical of Mr Trump during the US election campaigning, calling him “barking mad”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While it was confirmed the US resettlement deal, arranged under the Obama administration, would go ahead, no further details were provided.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton warned people smugglers not to restart their trade in the wake of the US deal proceeding. “We are aware of people smugglers trying to pitch to people to pay money to hop on to boats so that they can eventually end up in the US,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people have rallied in US cities and at airports to voice outrage over President Trump’s executive order.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In New York, Washington and Boston, a second wave of demonstrations yesterday ­followed spontaneous rallies that broke out at US airports on Sunday as <span class="companylink">US Customs and Border Protection</span> agents began enforcing Mr Trump’s directive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The protests spread westward as the day progressed. One of the largest of yesterday’s protests took place at Battery Park in lower Manhattan, within sight of the Statue of Liberty, long a symbol of welcome to US shores.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Washington, thousands rallied at Lafayette Square, while more than 10,000 packed Boston’s Copley Square.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Massacre at the mosque World P17 Paul Syvret, Dennis AtkinsOpinion P20-21</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Fate uncertain for refugees in Indonesia awaiting resettlement in US</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jewel Topsfield Indonesia Correspondent Jakarta </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>695 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>31 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IMMIGRATION LIMBO</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After three years of life in limbo in Indonesia, Hazara <b>refugee</b> Saira and nine of her extended family members received news from the <span class="companylink">UN <b>refugee</b> agency</span> in October - they would be resettled in the United States.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We were waiting for our [plane] tickets, we were accepted to go," the softly-spoken 22-year-old tells <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> from Cisarua, a cool, mountainous city outside Jakarta where many refugees make their home while stuck in transit in Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Saira (not her real name) is one of thousands of refugees around the world whose dreams, so close to realisation, have been shattered with a stroke of US President Donald Trump's pen. Now her life has been plunged once more into uncertainty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Friday I could not sleep," Saira says. "I did not even tell my family these things were happening because I wanted to see them happy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The way we are living in Indonesia is not really like living as a human. We do not have the right to apply for a job here, so especially for a big family like us it is very difficult."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hazara <b>refugee</b> Sardar "Sammy" Hussein, who <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> discovered sleeping rough in Jakarta, barely more than a boy, two years ago, appears set to scrape into the US by a fingernail.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sammy had already experienced one door slamming in his face. Orphaned by the <span class="companylink">Taliban</span>, he arrived in Jakarta in December 2014, a matter of days after Australia announced it would no longer resettle refugees who came to Indonesia after July 2014.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After a suspenseful two days, Sammy said he was contacted by the <span class="companylink">International Organisation for Migration</span> and told his flight to Washington State would go ahead as scheduled on Monday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's exciting, now I believe I am going ... I'm so happy," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Indonesian government has condemned Mr Trump's plans for "extreme vetting", which includes a four-month suspension of all refugees and a temporary bar on travellers from Syria and six other Muslim majority countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The bar does not include Indonesia - the largest Muslim-majority country in the world - with some suggesting this is due to Mr Trump's business interests in the country. Two Trump-branded resorts are being built in Bogor and Bali.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However the Indonesian government said it "deeply regretted" the new Trump policy, warning it would negatively impact the global effort to fight terrorism and "deal with <b>refugee</b> issues".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is wrong to relate radicalism and terrorism to a certain religion," Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said in a statement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's decision to cut the annual <b>refugee</b> intake from Indonesia from 650 to 400 and ignore those who applied after July 2014 was intended to "drain the pool" of refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However the boats have kept coming and Australia's policy has created a bottleneck in Indonesia, with 14,300 refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers now stranded on their way to other destination countries. Refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers are not able to legally work, formally marry an Indonesian or gain citizenship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesian Civil Society Network For <b>Refugee</b> Rights Protection (SUAKA) chairman Febionesta said Mr Trump's new <b>refugee</b> policy would add to the number of refugees stuck in Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"As long as the war in their country is still on, the flow of refugees continues," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Febionesta called on Australia to lift its ban on accepting refugees who arrived in Indonesia in the last two years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"What they did in 2014 is actually a denial of their own international obligation because they signed the <span class="companylink">UN</span> convention on refugees," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Saira came to Indonesia from Afghanistan in November 2013: "They were targeting Hazara and the government could not support us to save our lives because we are Hazara and Shia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unlike Sammy, Saira arrived by plane before the July 2014 cut-off imposed by Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We were hoping Australia would accept us because we didn't come by <b>boat</b>, we came here legally and also we came here before July."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, the family was eagerly waiting their tickets to the US.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Ban a mark of 'tyranny and bigotry'</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Carolyn Webb </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IMMIGRATION LIMBO</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A prominent Melbourne Muslim restaurateur has labelled US President Donald Trump's 90-day visa ban on visitors from seven Muslim-majority nations as amounting to tyranny and bigotry.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hana Assafiri described the move as a "war" against Muslims, and that human rights were being scaled back, which was "scary".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Assafiri had planned to fly to New York in March to an international conference on the status of women.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But she has decided not to go, which she says is "100 per cent" due to the ban and unease at how authorities might act towards her.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They can take you without notice, they can deem you whatever; there's absolutely no process, no human rights, everything's been scaled back. It's a scary, scary ... it's a war, that's been declared on people. It's ridiculous."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Assafiri, who has been outspoken on Muslims' and women's rights, said: "It's a fear of unknown, that anything can happen to me; they can take me away because they are suspicious of my political activism and there would be no redress or recourse."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The chef and owner of the Moroccan Soup Bar in North Fitzroy and the Moroccan Deli-cacy cafe in Brunswick, also lashed out at what she regards as President Trump's tyranny and bigotry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Assafiri told The Age she knew Muslims in the US, and spoke of "their fear of leaving, their fear of staying, and how to juggle and straddle that duality when the entire government has this agenda. It's bizarre."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She said she was in a privileged position of being able to decide not to go to the US, but others were more deeply affected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Muslim writer Yassmin Abdel-Magied told The Age the ban would prevent her from going to a US multicultural conference in Wisconsin in March. She said she was afraid it would be extended, preventing further speaking tours.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Abdel-Magied, born in Sudan and based in Perth, posted on her <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> page: "Looks like I'm banned from a visa to the USA for the next few months at least.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Sorry, I can't come cos they think I might be a terrorist! In all seriousness though, #1930s are back."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She noted: "The irony of course being that no one from the banned countries has carried out a fatal attack on the US."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abdel-Magied, a mechanical engineer and campaigner for diversity, migrated with her family from Sudan when she was two.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abdel-Magied's TED talk "What does my headscarf mean to you?" was viewed more than a million times online.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Iraqi <b>refugee</b> Waleed Alkhazrajy said the ban meant he would not be able to attend the funeral in late February or early March of his uncle Majid, who died recently aged 85 in the town of State College, Pennsylvania.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Alkhazrajy, 49, an anaesthetist who lives in Adelaide, and previously lived in Melbourne, fled to Australia by <b>boat</b> in 1996. He is an Australian citizen, but has been unable to renounce his Iraqi citizenship without facing a judge in Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has another uncle, Karim, who lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and he fears that if the ban is extended he may never see this uncle, nor seven cousins who live in the US, as well as his wife's relatives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He described the ban as "appalling" and ignorant of the human toll.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said it would cause families to be split and people to be deported. He likened it to Nazi decrees against races or Saddam Hussein's deporting and excluding of Iranians, "regardless of their current citizenship or nationality".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There is no evidence that it will bring security [for the US] or save lives or really make a change," he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Going out</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MARKETS MARKET BIRTHDAY January 28, Adelaide Central Market free It’s been 148 years since a group of East End market gardeners began selling their produce between Gouger and Grote streets. To celebrate the occasion there will be free family activities from 9am including giant games, face painting, a kids’ zone, fruit tastings, live music, and cooking demonstrations with Jessie Spiby and Michael Keelan. 7am-3pm, 44-60 Gouger St, Adelaide, adelaidecentralmarket.com</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MT PLEASANT FARMERS’ MARKET January 28, Mt Pleasant Showgrounds free Celebrate the 5th birthday of this country market. Simon Bryant will conduct a cooking demonstration, there will be a jumping castle for the children, and plenty of fresh food and music. 8am-noon, Melrose St, Mt Pleasant, mpfm.org.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ADELAIDE SHOWGROUND FARMERS’ MARKET January 29, Adelaide Showground free Simon Bryant will demonstrate a recipe using South Australian grown pulses from his own dirt(y) range, with fresh seasonal produce available at the market. 11am, Goodwood Rd, Wayville, adelaidefarmersmarket.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">GLENELG SUNSET MARKETS January 29, Glenelg free Head to the seaside for fashion, food and music. There will be more than 60 stalls plus free Fairy Bay fun and face painting for the kids. 4.30pm-8.30pm, Glenelg foreshore and Moseley Square, holdfast.sa.gov.au/whatson EVENTS FISHING IS FUN DAY January 28, Port Broughton jetty free Don’t know much about fishing? The Port Broughton Sailing and <b>Boat</b> Club is handing out goodie bags with a line, hooks, bait and advice so you can get started. From 10.30am, West Tce, Port Broughton, phone 8635 2854</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ROBOT COMBAT FIGHT NIGHT January 28, The Brocas Community Centre Join this group of robot building and fighting enthusiasts who will battle it out with homemade bots. Come with your own robot or hire one to take part in the tournament.4.30pm-9.30pm, 111 Woodville Rd, St Clair, tournament entry $10, hire fee $10, spectators free, phone 0430 035 628</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">OPEN GARDEN January 28 and 29, Camden Park Dhyan Marga’s garden is ornamental, productive, unusual, decorated and vibrant! The chef/caterer will talk about her unusual array of productive plants including candle nut and finger lime trees. 10am-4.30pm, 18 Patricia Ave, Camden Park, adult $8, conc. $6, children free, opengardensa.org.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MUSIC NO FIXED ADDRESS January 28, The Gov The songs of No Fixed Address touch on many music styles including reggae, ska, rock, folk, country, metal, punk and blues. They’ll be supported by Adelaide band Kineman Karma. 7.30pm, 59 Port Rd, Hindmarsh, $24.50, thegov.com.au Go see this!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Brighton Jetty Classic Sculptures Until February 5, various venues This annual exhibition and sale of indoor and outdoor sculptures features 100 works from local and interstate artists, including Sunflowers , by Quentin Gore, above, which is made of upcycled french oak wine barrel staves. Venues include Bindarra Reserve, corner of Bindarra Rd and the Esplanade; Brighton Surf Lifesaving Club, 147 Esplanade; and Brighton Foreshore, Brighton. 8am-8pm, brightonjettyclassicsculptures.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Check this out!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">NIGHT-TIME DUCK RACE January 28, Port Broughton foreshore Last year the naughty little ducks misbehaved and some escaped into the mangroves. Purchase a duck for $5 from Beachfront Deli, Central Deli, Pt Broughton IGA, Rags to Riches or the Fishing is Fun Day. Bring a torch to watch the race as ducks make their way to the shore after being set free en masse. Prizes are awarded to the first five ducks to cross the line. From 8pm, West Tce, Port Broughton, phone 8635 2854</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Staying in ALBUM THE FLAMING LIPS – OCZY MLODY $16.99, iTunes The first Flaming Lips album in four years (not including 2014’s Sgt Peppers tribute With a Little Help From My Fwends or the Miley Cyrus and HerDead Petz collaborative) is a welcome return to form, drawing from a similar sonic palette to acclaimed 1999 album The Soft Bulletin and its follow-up Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Oczy Mlody opens with the instrumental title track, a suitably psychedelic blend of electronica and experimental rock that does a decent job of establishing the tone of what’s to follow. How?? recalls the existential navel-gazing of Do You Realize??, but isn’t as musically or lyrically accessible, while on tracks such as There Should Be Unicorns and Sunrise (Eyes of the Young), singer Wayne Coyne’s faltering falsetto seems more fragile than ever.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other highlights include the tuneful The Castle and atmospheric closing track We A Family, a collaboration with Cyrus. No one could ever accuse The Flaming Lips of playing it safe, and on Oczy Mlody the band remains as eccentric as ever, but not at their melodic best.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DVD DEEPWATER HORIZON $19.98, <span class="companylink">JB Hi-Fi</span> This docu-disaster attempts a restaging of the Louisiana oil spill of April 2010, where the contravention of standard safety resulted in 11 men dead and 5 million barrels of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A secondary, seemingly unnecessary plot melodramatically explores tensions between working-class heroes like the rig’s chief electrics man (Mark Wahlberg) and villains such as BP’s chief slick-talker (John Malkovich) ultimately tries to humanise a terrifying major calamity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BOXED SET THE OA Streaming on <span class="companylink">Netflix</span> The eight-part series is by filmmaker Zal Batmanglij and actor Brit Marling, who plays the lead as Prairie Johnson, a young blind woman who reappears after seven years as a missing person.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now no longer without vision, Prairie is unwilling to describe her presumed abduction and captivity to the authorities or to her long-suffering parents, played by Scott Wilson (The Walking Dead) and Alice Krige (Thor: The Dark World).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Soon, though, she begins telling her tale each night in an abandoned house to five local misfits she has selected to join in an unspecified mission.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Divisive, and deep – it fills the void for those waiting for Stranger Things next season.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">REVISIT DISTRICT 9 $6.98, <span class="companylink">JB Hi-Fi</span> Aliens have arrived in peace but, more importantly, out of necessity – and Johannesburg now has more than a million aliens in a <b>refugee</b> camp – District 9.The less you know about this film, the better. In its renegade filming techniques, District 9 uses mockumentary sensibilities with media reports and security vision seamlessly through a two-hour thrill ride that explores racism and xenophobia. Still the best thing by director Neill Blomkamp.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>474 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While thousands of individuals from around the world became Australian citizens on Thursday, the roughly 1200 <b>asylum</b>-seekers on Nauru and Manus Island who have been denied that opportunity got some bad news. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a new <b>refugee</b> policy halting admissions from Syria and suspending it from other majority-Muslim countries until the administration decides vetting procedures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's still unclear how the new executive order will be implemented and over what time-frame, but it's likely to delay or scupper altogether the agreement to resettle the Manus and Nauru <b>asylum</b>-seekers (most of whom hail from the Middle East, Pakistan, Iran and Sudan and Somalia) in the US. Under the terms of the agreement reached between the Turnbull government and the Obama administration in September, Australia was to have resettled a similar number of Central American refugees marooned in camps in Costa Rica.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce responded to news of Mr Trump's new executive order by claiming it wouldn't be "the end of the world" if the Australia-US agreement collapsed. It was an extraordinarily insensitive remark given some <b>asylum</b>-seekers have been detained on Manus and Nauru for more than three years and they now face many more months in legal limbo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Joyce's flippant remark is in keeping with the Coalition's stubborn and unyielding attitude to <b>asylum</b>-seekers - underlined by its decision to legislate a lifetime visa ban on people who have arrived by <b>boat</b> since July 2013. Polls appear to suggest many Australians support that stance. It's unlikely, however, they condone what amounts to indefinite administrative detention in conditions that breach the detainees' human rights and which have given rise to sickness, self-harm, physical assault and even death.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year, the PNG Supreme Court ordered the government to take immediate steps to close the Manus Island centre. Nearly 12 months later, however, it has no idea of when its ruling will be implemented. And the government's obsession with concealing its legal and administrative hand means ordinary Australians have only the vaguest notion of the detainees' likely fate. What is known is that the Coalition government refused resettlement offers from New Zealand and several other countries, presumably because discussions with the Obama administration for an <b>asylum</b>-seeker swap were already well advanced.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A wholesale swap was always a risky proposition, especially given the Obama presidency's short shelf life in 2016.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But even if it had looked a sure bet, the Coalition ought to have investigated alternatives. It's apparent failure to do so hints at administrative incompetence. Worse, it indicates an appalling disregard for the rights of people who've committed no crime but have been locked up anyway. Their resettlement must be accorded urgent priority.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Astounding act of bravery by four men on the high JON STANHOPE seas calls for recognition in true Australian style</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Boat</b>'s captain and three <b>asylum</b> seekers put their lives at risk for the sake of others.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An important focus of Australia Day is the Australian honours system through which we recognise "those people whose service and contribution have had the effect of making a difference to Australian life or, more broadly, to humanity at large".</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian honours system recognises the actions and achievements of people who go above and beyond what could be reasonably expected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian Bravery Decorations are, in similar vein, "our pre-eminent awards for the recognition of acts of bravery."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Australia Day in 2013 the Australian Navy was involved in a desperate search in the seas off Christmas Island for three <b>asylum</b> seekers and the captain of the Indonesian fishing <b>boat</b> on which they had travelled to Australia to seek sanctuary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b> (SIEV 580) had become disabled four days after its departure from Indonesia but in sight of Christmas Island. The engine had failed, which also rendered the bilge pumps inoperable. The <b>boat</b> was taking about 40 litres of water an hour and necessitated constant bailing by three people to prevent it sinking. The <b>boat</b> was also drifting uncontrollably into the wide expanse of the Indian Ocean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b>'s captain Roy Jordi and three of the <b>asylum</b> seekers, all of whom were from Myanmar, namely Mohammad Hassan, Mohammad Noor and Mr Sabibullah (Sabib Ullah), determined to make an attempt to reach Christmas Island and so save those remaining on SIEV 580.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The four men constructed a makeshift raft from the only materials available to them, bamboo poles, rope and inner tyre tubes. The raft consisted of five inner tubes tied to two or three bamboo poles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The men intended to paddle the raft across the sea a distance estimated as much as 20 kilometres to Christmas Island. The <b>boat</b> was not carrying life jackets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The raft was launched in the morning of January 24, 2013 and despite pleading from passengers and the remaining members of the crew to abandon the plan because of the obvious danger, the four men swam from the <b>boat</b> to the raft and left on their mission of mercy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ironically SIEV 580 was located by HMAS Larrakia on January 25, about 24 hours after the raft set out for Christmas Island. Officers on the Larrakia were alerted to the fact that four men were on a raft attempting to reach Christmas Island and a sea and air search was launched. No sign of the men was found during the search.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, on January 30, Captain Jordi was located by residents of Christmas Island on a beach. In a record of interview with Christmas Island police, he said he had spent four days in the sea before coming ashore on Christmas Island and had walked for two days in the jungle before finding assistance. The deaths of the other three men were referred to the West Australian Coroner and the Deputy State Coroner, Evelyn Vicker, has recently concluded an inquest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The coroner, in the formal findings, suspected that it was during the initial battering that Mr Hassan, Mr Noor and Mr Sabibullah lost their lives, and that all three men died in the ocean off Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These outstanding acts of bravery occurred in Australia. As a consequence of their actions, motivated by a determination to save the lives of others regardless of the risk to themselves, three brave men died.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is of course purely coincidental that these events and deaths occurred on or around Australia Day, the day on which we as a nation applaud and recognise the very attributes displayed, with such tragic consequences, by these four men.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The fact that these events are so closely associated with Australia Day will, however, give added poignancy and effect to any formal recognition that these four men are so indisputably deserving and will hopefully be accorded.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former chief minister Jon Stanhope is a retired administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories, comprising Christmas and Cocos Islands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian honours system recognises the actions and achievements of people who go above and beyond.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PRIDE OF AUSTRALIA AWARDS - QUEENSLAND From Christmas Island to Nepal to the coast of Greece, Nurse Helen Zahos has flown all around the world to help out in times of extreme crisis</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When disaster strikes outside our borders, most of us shake our heads in helplessness. But Nurse Helen Zahos steps in.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Currently based in the emergency ward of the Gold Coast University Hospital, Pride of Australia nominee Zahos has been on hand to help during some of the worst tragedies to strike the world in the past few years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zahos was volunteering with the St John Ambulance in the Northern Territory when she was on hand to treat victims of the Bali bombings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Three years ago, she joined the Australian medics helping overseas disaster efforts in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, where nearly 2 million people where left homeless and the death toll climbed to more than 6000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two years later, she again stepped forward. First in Nepal, which was hit by a devastating earthquake in April. Then with the Syrian <b>refugee</b> crisis, working both on the island of Lesbos where up to 5000 refugees were arriving a day and at the border of Greece and Yugoslavia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zahos has also worked on Christmas Island and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Each experience of being at the front line of a major disaster left Zahos with memories, both of the events and the people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I didn’t know a lot about refugees before I went to Christmas Island,” she says of her arrival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There were stories of everyday people who had bombs dropped around them. It really opened my eyes. I had no idea until I sat down and actually spoke to refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think it’s easy to come to conclusions when you’re sitting on your own in a comfortable, safe living environment to look at something on the news and make assumptions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But when you actually meet someone who has been through these horrendous experience ...” she says, her voice trailing off as she becomes lost in her thoughts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zahos spent three months with Doctors of the World in 2014 and witnessed life changing events.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One was on Lesbos, where the coast guard and authorities were struggling to cope with the influx of up to 5000 refugees a day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On October 28, a wooden <b>boat</b> sank in rough seas off the island’s north coast. The death toll was chilling: 11 children and 27 adults, some in wheelchairs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zahos worked through the night treating the injured, and aiding those watching their loved ones pass away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A massive event like that would be on the news for days on end but it didn’t even make the news here,” she says in disbelief of the way the day was overlooked in the face of the wider <b>refugee</b> crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In contrast, when she came back from Nepal, she found the biggest story in Australia was Johnny Depp not quarantining his dogs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I had a mother come up to me every day in Nepal showing me a picture of her daughter saying, ‘she’s still buried come and get her’.” In the last six weeks of <b>refugee</b> crisis volunteer work, she was in an area where the <span class="companylink">UN <b>Refugee</b> Agency</span> had already pulled out and had a day she will never forget.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zahos took a call saying a man had accidentally fallen on to train tracks and was on fire.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“You get a call like that and the doctor and I raced down there,” she recalls of the day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sadly, the man died. After Zahos comforted his family and assisted officers, she walked back, trying to avoid the tear gas, rubber bullets and water canons being sprayed onto the crowd of protesters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s all very heightened but after days on end of that heightened environment you get used to it, it’s the norm,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was then a protester mistook the blue vest she wore identifying her as an aid worker as the blue vest of a police officer and hit her in the face with a metal pole.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The impact left her with a broken jaw and blood streaming from a wound in her mouth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A female <b>refugee</b> came to my assistance and started yelling at him. He dropped the pole and said sorry.” Zahos is grateful her colleagues nominated her through the Pride of Australia process but says her reward comes from helping those in crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">GLORIA STEENSEN Anti-violence campaigner “Just let it go mate.” These were the last words spoken by one-punch victim Bruce Steensen, 53, before his death in 2014. And these are the words his mother, Gloria Steensen, has used to start a campaign aimed at eradicating alcohol-fuelled violence. Steensen has distributed beer mats, bar runners, drink coasters, stubbie holders and more emblazoned with “just let it go mate” to pubs and clubs Australia-wide, with an additional reminder that just one punch can kill. The great-grandmother also campaigns within the community to raise awareness around the issue. “I just don’t want to see other families go through what we’ve been through,” she says. “if I could get just one family safe, then Bruce didn’t die in vain.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AGUEK NYOK Real life hero A father of four, taxi driver Aguek Nyok didn't hesitate when he saw a bus ablaze in Moorooka, with desperate passengers beating their fists against the doors which had jammed shut. Running to their rescue, Nyok repeatedly kicked in the middle door of the bus, allowing passengers — including children — to escape to safety. The blaze had begun when an “incendiary device” was thrown at the bus driver, Manmeet Alisher. Sadly, Alisher did not survive and a man is currently facing charges of murder, arson and 11 counts of attempted murder. Saying “the biggest honour (is) saving the lives of people, it’s priceless,” the South Sudanese <b>refugee</b> is now planning to return home to attempt to locate his missing brother.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">JENNIFER SPENCER Fighting for justice The town of Oakey have been in the fight of their lives — and Jennifer Spencer has been one of the residents leading the charge. For four years, the town’s entire water supply was supplemented with bore water which had been contaminated via a nearby army aviation base. But when residents aired their concerns about health risks and falling land value, they hit plenty of roadblocks in their quest for justice. Spencer, who had bought now worthless land in Oakey to train race horses, refused to lie down without a fight. She not only went to war with the Defence Department, Spencer has set up an online support group, rallied to meet politicians and forced the department raise funds for bloodtests and counselling for those affected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FELICITY GUY Fearless in the face of dangerA day off from school turned into high drama for eight-year-old Felicity Guy. Having not felt well, she was at home with mum Kirby, brother Josh, 4 (pictured right) and sister Emily, 2 when a man allegedly broke into their home in Ingham and attempted to snatch her young brother. While her mum, who was then 37 weeks pregnant with her fourth child, attempted to keep hold of Josh, quick thinking Felicity sprang into action. First calling 000, then her father, Felicity then ran to the neighbours where she managed to clearly describe what was happening. “Felicity was as brave as any adult might have been that day,” proud mum Kirby says of her now-10 year old hero daughter.“I don’t think she understands why what she did was such a big deal. I tried to explain to her about the other amazing people who have got this medal in the past and she just says, ‘Why am I as good as them?’”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The federal government's offshore detention policy, an expedient extension of that of its Labor predecessor, not only falls far short of humanitarian and international legal standards, but of the basic financial rectitude that ought to underpin the expenditure of taxpayers' money. The damaging and unending internment on Nauru and on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island of hundreds of vulnerable people fleeing persecution and worse is, in other words, not only immoral, but a cavalier misuse of billions of dollars of scarce public funds.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We know this because the people's financial watchdog, the Commonwealth auditor, in recent days released a report showing breaches by the government and its bureaucrats of fundamental rules governing spending. This compounds the sheer fiscal stupidity of a policy that costs taxpayers $500,000 a year to keep a <b>refugee</b> - and as many as 90 per cent of the relatively small number of <b>asylum</b> seekers who have arrived by <b>boat</b> in recent years are proven to be genuine refugees - in these cruel offshore camps, as against $12,000 to process a person onshore in the community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">Australian National Audit Office</span>'s damning assessment is that the Immigration Department has "fallen well short" of expected standards in its management of contracts for detention facilities on Manus Island and Nauru. While we do not claim corruption has occurred, the degree of ineptitude and/or recklessness uncovered creates a fertile environment for dishonesty and a lack of probity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The debacle beggars belief. The report found that of $2.3 billion paid over 40 months, $1.1 billion was approved without appropriate authorisation. A further $1.1 billion was paid with "no departmental record" of who had authorised the transfers. The watchdog concluded the contracts' lack of effective guidelines and management mechanisms stemmed in part from the "great haste" with which the detention centres were established in 2012-13. The Department of Immigration and Border Protection even failed to inform the Australian government's self-managed insurance fund, Comcover, about a new $75 million facility in Nauru - so the building was not insured when it burnt down in a riot in 2013, within weeks of being commissioned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It gets worse. The audit office delivered a similarly shocking report back in September, identifying "serious and persistent deficiencies" in the department's procurement of garrison support and welfare services for the centres. With risible understatement, the feckless department is now acknowledging on its website that "its decision-making processes in this complex and rapidly evolving environment may not have been adequately documented". Quite. And adding irony to injury, the audit itself cost taxpayers $1.5 million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were 871 people detained on Manus Island and 383 on Nauru at the end of November. More live now in the struggling Nauruan community. They should all be brought to Australia, where they can be processed quickly and safely. In any case, Papua New Guinea's highest court almost a year ago declared the Manus Island centre unconstitutional, so the situation is unsustainable. The <b>refugee</b> issue is difficult and complex; were there a ready solution it would have been implemented long ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Preventing people from perishing at sea is a noble aim. Well-resourced regional processing centres should be set up, removing the incentive to get on boats. The situation will be mitigated, but not solved, should incoming US President Donald Trump uphold an agreement for his nation to accept some of the refugees. But our government must shut these disgraceful centres.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>IT MAY NOT BE IDEAL, BUT WE ARE SAVING LIVES AT SEA</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>BRIGITTE DWYER </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Human rights activists miss the point on refugees</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The world gradually is reawakening to the dangers of idealism, particularly the idealism embodied in the human rights movement. The global <b>refugee</b> crisis has exposed the indulgence and naivety of human rights advocates and org­anisations.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In its latest round of criticism, global advocacy organisation <span class="companylink">Human Rights Watch</span> describes Australia’s <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies as “draconian” and instructs the Australian government to “take immediate steps to end these unlawful policies”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Its stand is backed up by domestic critics such as Madeline Gleeson, whose recent book Offshore professes to be “an uncompromising overview” of the life of <b>asylum</b>-seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The book collates information from publicly available reports and reiterates the widely acknowledged concerns with Australia’s volatile immigration program and the policy miscalculations of rapidly re-establishing offshore processing centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hardly surprisingly, it fails to offer any concrete solutions beyond the feeble suggestion that Australia establish “a clear and definite plan for the future”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The author, a lawyer and human rights advocate, clearly believes the offshore nature of the facilities is the cause of the problems. It’s hard to understand why, especially when it’s clear the same problems persist in onshore facilities, including those in Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Early this month, the residents of an Italian <b>refugee</b> camp rioted in response to the death of a 25-year-old Ivory Coast woman, allegedly because of a delay in medical assistance. The facility, built for 15 people, is hosting up to 1500 migrants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gleeson fails even to allude to the cause of the problems she describes. The acceleration in the number of refugees arriving on Australian shores (as well as the hundreds of drownings in nearby waters) were the direct consequences of an abrupt change in policy by the Rudd government in 2008.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bold policy changes might be admirable in the field of economics or tax reform, but policy changes that directly affect human lives should be cautious, incremental and meticulously ­analysed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Rudd government failed to predict the consequences of suddenly dismantling Australia’s established immigration procedures. This created a regional crisis and spawned subsequent hasty, ill-conceived and expensive decisions as the government, then under prime minister Julia Gillard, sought to regain control of the nation’s borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A similarly chaotic response is emerging in Europe. The latest suggestion to deal with the unprecedented wave of refugees on European coastlines is the use of private security firms to monitor refugees in Libya, and to stop boats before they depart.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A sudden change in immigration policy is the recipe for chaos. As Gleeson notes, the most common grievance of refugees taken to Manus Island and Nauru was the uncertainty regarding their future and the arbitrary nature of decisions. “Almost all <b>asylum</b>-seekers”, she writes, com­plained about the “unfairness and arbitrariness” of the Gillard government’s response.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The turning point came with the Christmas Island disaster on December 15, 2010, when Australians watched in horror as a <b>boat</b> carrying <b>asylum</b>-seekers collided with rocks and was smashed against the nearby cliffs. Of the 90 <b>asylum</b>-seekers mainly from Iran and Iraq, 48 were killed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia sought to re-establish control over immigration. We did so well before Europe and, as a consequence, the seabed surrounding our continent contains far fewer skeletons than the Mediterranean, where thousands of refugees have drowned in the past few years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 200 have joined them since New Year’s Day. This brutal fact is continually dismissed by human rights advocates, whose collective blindness to <b>refugee</b> drownings amounts to what Mark Latham calls a “discounting of death”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gleeson continues this macabre tradition, quoting approvingly one Manus Island <b>refugee</b> who claimed that he preferred his terrifying journey on the high seas to offshore detention because at least “our life was in the hands of nature”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The advocacy of human rights groups has failed to improve the outcomes of refugees. Their reports have served as tools in domestic political hostility and delayed the prospect of a national consensus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gleeson refuses to concede the obvious point that a well-res­ourced and well-equipped processing facility benefits refugees by providing certainty, safety and realistic expectations, as well as essential services such as education and healthcare.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These facilities also can bring benefits to the host country, which often are impoverished nations such as Nauru and Papua New Guinea. Their citizens also have “human rights needs”, but their case is not popular among international advocates. Gleeson inadvertently highlights this selective advocacy when she protests that <b>refugee</b> children on Nauru “were expected to enrol at local schools”. This is a nation, she informs us, whose educational system is “barely existent” and whose classrooms are “dilapidated and covered with graffiti”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gleeson’s book is a testament to the limitations of advocacy and the folly of idealism. It is very easy to observe and criticise, to scold and condemn; it’s a lot harder to undertake the mundane task of acting in the real world or, as Pope Francis puts it, “living with the smell of the sheep”.Brigitte Dwyer is an Adelaide-based freelance writer.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Authoritarian test for Trump in control</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>THEO THEOPHANOUS </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE Trump presidency is upon us and is set to shake up politics in America, and indeed throughout the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Before we can get a handle on what to expect, we first have to understand how we got here.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier this month in the <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun I argued that the rise of Donald Trump can be explained by two factors. First, increased fear in the community about crime, terrorism, economic security and foreigners who don’t fit in — and a belief these issues are being ignored by the political elite.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Second, the rise of authoritarian attitudes that are now driving behaviour at the ballot box. It’s these attitudes that elected Trump, gave us Brexit and have seen the rise of Pauline Hanson.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They involve support for strong leadership to fix things even if that means breaking the rules, greater discipline in our schools, heavy penalties for crimes and antipathy to outsiders who don’t fit in or don’t share our values.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a politically correct world, these authoritarian views often remain hidden even from pollsters. But recent research in America shows that having authoritarian attitudes is a high indicator of Trump support — beyond education level or even ethnicity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump understood there was a groundswell of people who held these values and they had had a gutful of the establishment, media and politically correct elites. He also understood he needed a way of talking directly to these people. This he found in the form of <span class="companylink">Twitter</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But what will happen now that he has achieved this stunning success? Playing to base authoritarian attitudes of people with simple populist slogans is not the same as actually delivering.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Reversing the worldwide trend towards free trade, building a wall with Mexico, befriending Putin and abandoning <span class="companylink">NATO</span> are all difficult enough to achieve given resistance from the establishment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The real test will be if he can raise living standards, increase jobs and reduce crime. If he fails, the same people will reject him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the Trump phenomenon shows us is that failing to address people’s day-to-day concerns while pushing pet social issues and politically correct narratives is a recipe for accelerating the rise of authoritarian attitudes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is time mainstream politicians understood their pet projects are not the priorities of ordinary people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aboriginal recognition in the Constitution, marriage equality, the Safe Schools program are important issues for some but they are not priorities for most.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is little doubt a free vote in parliament would result in legalising same-sex marriage. The political classes have done their soul-searching and a majority are ready to endorse it. But I doubt it is a priority for ordinary people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Without their real issues being addressed it’s an open question whether, in a plebiscite, ordinary people would do the politically if not morally correct thing and vote for same-sex marriage or constitutional recognition, or whether they would rise, Trump-like, and reject these propositions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many politicians in Australia have tried to have it both ways. For example, we are told we need to stop <b>asylum</b> seeker boats because of our concern for saving lives at sea. I would venture to say that many people with strong authoritarian attitudes have little concern for the lives of <b>asylum</b> seekers. They just want them kept out of Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Smart politicians like Peter Dutton recognise these fears. They know they are appealing to attitudes that even if hidden will express themselves at the ballot box in their party’s favour — or will they? ‎ When a Trump or a Hanson comes along and brazenly says what many such people are secretly thinking, politics changes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">People harbouring such attitudes don’t have to unpick hidden messages of mainstream politicians. They have a clear and simple champion to vote for.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet the major parties keep sending underlying messages. Whether it’s the Liberal Party’s message on keeping the mostly Muslim <b>boat</b> people out, or the ALP’s message on keeping foreign workers from taking Australian jobs, it is the Hansons (or the Trumps) who actually benefit from the underlying messages. For example, we need honest dialogue about Islamic terrorism. Using politically correct statements such as “terrorism has nothing to do with Islam” doesn’t cut it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We should put on the table our expectations of Muslim (and other ethnic) communities in terms of respect for our democratic values including rule of law, gender equality and freedom of speech.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For me, this is a prerequisite for a respectful multiculturalism. Instead of trying to emulate the success of Trump by playing to underlying community fears through hidden messages, mainstream politicians should address the genuine security, cultural harmony and economic fears in honest dialogue with the electorate free of politically correct slogans. If they don’t, they can expect more unpleasant surprises at the ballot box.THEO THEOPHANOUS IS A FORMER STATE GOVERNMENT MINISTER</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1050 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE latest act of senseless cruelty by Australian Border Force (ABF) is the banning of mobile phones used by <b>asylum</b> seekers who have arrived by <b>boat</b> and are held in onshore immigration detention. The ban will come into force this February.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mobile phones are a lifeline for <b>asylum</b> seekers. They are imprisoned indefinitely within a hostile environment with no future, and their loved ones are in dangerous situations far away.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At least with a mobile they have some idea of what might be happening with their families, and through contact with each other and advocates, there is at least some human comfort available. Without mobile phones, we would not know of the terrible abuses being committed in these places.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The reasoning provided by the ABF commander is absurd. She says <b>asylum</b> seekers make up less than a third of people in detention. The remainder is people who have committed crimes, served their time, but have now had their visas cancelled. She accuses this latter group of continuing criminal behaviour. <b>Asylum</b> seekers are not criminals. Exposing them to repeat offenders under circumstances that are trying for both groups, I think, amounts to deliberate provocation by ABF.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">OBVIOUSLY the age of entitlement is only over for the workers, pensioners and <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span> recipients. Remember we were told that by cigar smoking Joe Hockey and Mathias Cormann. It also is obvious that it is not over by any means for the politicians as the latest lot of snouts in the trough become more in the news of late.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What a joke are the so called "overseas study trips" that result in no or very little benefit to the taxpaying community. Most of these are so obviously junkets of self indulgence. The information would be freely available on the internet or by phone. The latest expenses revelations ('On a wing and a fare', Herald, 13/1) are just so frustrating to the general public who see local funding needs for schools, hospitals etc being frittered away by political waste such as this.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is also painfully obvious that many politicians, who are supposedly there to serve us, have no issues spending taxpayers' money on themselves. There is just so much money being wasted the time has come for a serious look into the perks of our politicians. For the Hunter politicians to spend $800,000 in just six months is astounding. Multiply that by the number of them in Canberra; the figure becomes really staggering. New hospital anyone?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A complete review is needed; not by the politicians themselves. That's putting the fox in charge of the hen house. Their wages, pensions, expenses, travel allowances etc all need to be reviewed. No more a 'them and us' system, but a more realistic view by ordinary honest folk who can see that the current system is open to overuse at the community's expense.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I WOULD to know how many times a week Joel Fitzgibbon has to get up at 5am to trip around the country ('On a wing and a fare', Herald, 13/1). In the real world I would get up at 3am go to the depot, get the truck ready and then wait for the paper truck to come in. When I got my load of papers, the run was from Muswellbrook about 4am travel to Gunnedah to Narrabri to Moree, back to Narrabri across to Coonabarabran to Binnaway. My last stop was Weetaliba nearly back to Coolah. This was three days a week. Tuesday and Thursday was school bus runs, Sunday I would front up again at 3.30am for a Baradine trip. This was a yearly timetable, not a one off. I wonder if the trip to Lords was a freebie. I wish I was able to run around the world like the pollies. Not on my wage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IN support of Peter Cock ('Newcastle Airport sets course for wider horizon', Herald, 14/1) I would like to add that this airport has a friendly feel about it when you enter it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The check-in staff are friendly and obliging. After checking in many times for travel to Brisbane, I have never met a grumpy staff worker. Maybe I was lucky.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The airport staff give Newcastle Airport a good name. Imagine this airport run by politicians; it would be a total nightmare.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I TOO have had Steve Kemsley's experience regarding the emptying of water bottles prior to admission to McDonald Jones Stadium for Jets home games (Letters, 18/1).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the last few months I've been to events at the Adelaide Oval, the SCG and the Sydney Tennis Centre and bringing in water in non-commercial containers has never been a problem. It almost seems that the McDonald Jones Stadium practice is more about commercial reasons than public safety. The folly is that the profit made from selling bottled water would be more than negated by the non attendance of a supporter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Come on McDonalds Jones Stadium operators, how about exhibiting some goodwill towards supporters wanting to spend their hard earned to watch their home team play?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I THOROUGHLY agree and sympathise with Mick Kembrey (Short Takes, 16/1) over his treatment as a casual mine worker. Long hours, no holidays, sick leave or pay when weather prevents work. But I respectfully point out he has taken aim at the wrong target. As a member of the Labor Party, MP Joel Fitzgibbon opposes the casualisation of the Australian workforce for all the reasons Mick mentions. Also, especially where you have two people standing side by side doing exactly the same job receiving vastly different rates of pay, as we are seeing in the mining industry. Mr Fitzgibbon also opposes the use of labour hire companies where they are being used to drive down wages.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THUMBS up to a kind family from Blacksmiths. Last week my husband and I were camping near Crescent Head when my husband became ill and was unable to tow our caravan back to Newcastle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A fellow camper, Shaun, offered to drive our truck and van back to our home while his beautiful wife drove their camper trailer. They made our dilemma so much easier and we are forever grateful. The true blue Aussie spirit of mateship lives on forever.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>‘The happiest Aussie’</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nicole Johnstone </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>503 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Primbee resident Burhan Zangana, waking up to the chortle of a magpie is a blessing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having woken to endless bombing in his Iraqi homeland, Burhan decided to flee in search of safety in 1993.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Over the next two years, Burhan endured hunger, homelessness and physical exhaustion to find a place where he no longer feared for his life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Going back to Iraq was always more dangerous," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The first time I crossed the country to Turkey, we were ambushed. Six people were killed, but that didn't stop me. I had to try again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"One night I set off with ten people in a <b>boat</b> from Turkey to Greece. We had a a couple of buckets to get the water out and that was it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We were so happy when we reached the Greek Islands, but then the border guards raised their weapons and told us to go home."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite looking down the barrel of a gun, Burhan remained determined.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I was risking my life to look for the best country in the world," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I didn't know where it is was, but I knew I was going to get there. Nothing was going to stop me.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I pulled up my jumper and said 'shoot me'. I just couldn't go back."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Only months later, Burhan's dream begun to materialise; he was accepted for a <b>refugee</b> visa to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"When I arrived at Sydney Airport in 1995, I was safe," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The words 'Welcome to Australia' will always echo in my mind. Once I arrived, I was accepted."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it wasn't until 2015 that Burhan truly found his home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"People choose places to live based on four things: the people, the water, greenery and mountains. Wollongong has all four.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"For me, Australia is the house and Wollongong is my cosy room."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since moving to Wollongong, Burhan said he has found his home, but it isn't the case for all refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">" Wollongong became a 'Welcome <b>Refugee</b> Zone' a while ago and it's a very friendly place," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Where we need work is in big cities and rural areas where they don't know much about refugees and [prejudices] exist. Australian people are good to refugees, but when it comes to the policy naming them '<b>boat</b> people' or 'que-jumpers' it's not nice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"People fear the unknown. When they don't know something, they fear it. If those in power spread the mentality of 'refugees will conquer the place and swamp the towns' ignorant people will believe it without knowing."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For attempting to break down barriers within the community, Burhan has been nominated for Citizen of the Year in Wollongong.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Burhan has also been invited to attend an Australia Day reception with Premier Mike Baird.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It feels great to be nominated," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I have come from being stateless to now being nominated for an award in the best country in the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I am the happiest Australian."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>It’s about saving lives</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>576 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>36</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2017 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">OF all the ideas Australia has exported to the world, this one is least likely to win us any accolades, but it’s one of the most important.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s not the ultrasound technology or the black-box flight recorder. It’s <b>boat</b> turnbacks. And whether you like the idea or not, whether you believe all refugees should come here or not, you must admit it’s been effective.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We’ve seen, in the past year, the bodies of children washed up on Mediterranean beaches as desperate refugees from Syria try to reach Europe. Those scenes, not so long ago, were playing out on Australian shores. Thanks to the tough policies of the Australian government, we no longer have to watch infants and women dying on our coastlines.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Today we reveal nations from across Europe are involved in confidential talks with our Immigration Minister, Peter Dutton, and his senior officials about how the turnback regime works and it’s no wonder. nations such as Greece cannot continue to absorb vast numbers of refugees without a proper processing ­system, and they certainly cannot continue to effectively endorse people-smuggling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turning back boats at sea is the signature policy of the short-lived Tony Abbott government. Combined with mandatory detention — the legacy of the Hawke government — and offshore processing (John Howard) the turnback policy was the tweak that made ­people-smuggling a poor business proposition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Sunday Telegraph is firmly pro-immigration and pro-<b>refugee</b>. We believe Australia has been ­enhanced by each successive wave of immigration, and by all the refugees from war-torn countries who have made new lives for themselves in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But we are, like the vast majority of Australians, revolted by the very idea of people-smuggling: the rich criminals in Indonesia and Sri Lanka who profit from the desperation of others, piling them into ­unseaworthy vessels with little to no concern about whether they reach their destinations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees aren’t evil. People-smugglers are. And the critics on the left who have railed against the ­Abbott-Turnbull government’s border protection policy fail to see that they are effectively arguing on behalf of the worst kind of organised crime.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seeking refuge is not a crime. In fact, Australia has a very firm obligation to ensure that refugees who seek our help are afforded protection. But that ­obligation does not require us to extend an invitation to every spiv in a port town to start making money from trafficking human beings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our <b>Refugee</b> Convention obligation is to provide sanctuary to people who have been forced out of their own countries by the legitimate fear of persecution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UN</span> estimates there are more than 21 million people in the world today who qualify as refugees. Our obligation is to bring a fair share of those people to Australia. But we should choose who they are, and where they come from. We shouldn’t have to take Sri Lankans or Pakistanis simply because they’re the ones who can afford to come by <b>boat</b>. We should be able to take Syrians and Afghanis, Sudanese and Kurds, once they have been assessed by the <span class="companylink">UN</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The process should be orderly and organised. It should be well-supported, both with financial resources and with the goodwill of Australians.And that goodwill can only exist if Australians have confidence that we’re not being taken for mugs by criminals in Indonesian ports.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Europe <b>refugee</b> plea to Aussies</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Ellen Whinnett EXCLUSIVE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>383 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2017 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AT LEAST six European countries and the <span class="companylink">EU</span> have ­secretly approached Australia for advice on stopping the flood of <b>asylum</b> seekers ­entering Europe by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The private talks were held despite the <span class="companylink">EU</span> publicly rejecting Australia’s tough <b>refugee</b> policy that includes <b>boat</b> turn-backs and offshore processing.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As recently as November, Australia sent senior Border Force officials to Warsaw, in Poland, to address border protection agencies trying to stem an armada of boats, mainly from Libya to Greece and Italy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton declined to detail the talks or countries involved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it is understood Australia briefed the UK on its strategy before former British prime minister David Cam-eron urged <span class="companylink">EU</span> leaders in March to follow the Australian example by turning back boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Austria is also understood to have approached Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A number of European nations and the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> have sought advice from the Australian government on Operation Sovereign Borders,” a spokesman for Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The minister has personally had discussions with several of his European counterparts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It would not be appropriate to disclose discussions with other governments. “Australia is willing to share its experiences, but it is for ­individual governments and regions to determine what they believe is the most effective course of action.” Mr Dutton is known to have discussed Australia’s policies in September with Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU commissioner for migration, at a meeting in New York.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former prime minister Tony Abbott called on Europe three times to adopt the same policies as Australia to halt the flow of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats from Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the <span class="companylink">EU</span> flatly rejected his call, saying the policies breached international laws on “re-foulement”, or returning people to danger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EU spokeswoman on mig-ration Natasha Bertaud said the <span class="companylink">EU</span> “applies the principle of non-refoulement”. “We have no intention of changing this, so of course the Australian model can never be a model for us,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In November, the new ­Europe-wide coast guard and border protection agency Frontex invited Australia to give the main address to a conference looking at ways to stem the flow of <b>asylum</b> seekers.Europe is facing its largest migration crisis since WWII. More than 4400 have drowned in <b>boat</b> capsizes since 2015.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EXCLUSIVE ELLEN WHINNETT </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>445 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AT LEAST six European countries and the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> have secretly asked Australia for advice on how to stop the flood of <b>asylum</b>-seekers crossing into Europe by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The private talks have been held despite the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> publicly rejecting Australia’s tough <b>refugee</b> policies, which include <b>boat</b> turn-backs and offshore processing.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Sunday Mail can reveal while the <span class="companylink">EU</span> publicly criticised calls by former prime minister Tony Abbott for Europe to adopt Australian policies, they discreetly asked Australian officials for advice on how to stop the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As recently as November, Australia sent senior Border Force officials to Warsaw in Poland to address border protection agencies who are trying to stem the flow of boats across the Mediterranean, mainly from Libya to Greece and Italy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton declined to detail the discussions or countries involved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood Australia briefed the UK on its strategy, before then British prime minister David Cameron urged <span class="companylink">EU</span> leaders in March to follow the Australian example and turn back boats which were leaving from Libya.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Austria is also understood to have sought advice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A number of European nations and the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> have sought advice from the Australian Government on Operation Sovereign Borders,’’ Mr Dutton’s spokesman said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Minister has personally had discussions with several of his European counterparts. It would not be appropriate to disclose discussions with other governments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Australia is willing to share its experiences, but it is for individual governments and regions to determine what they believe is the most effective course of action.’’ Mr Dutton is known to have discussed Australia’s policies in September with Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU Commissioner for Migration, at a meeting in New York.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott three times called on Europe to adopt the policies used by Australia to halt the flow of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats from Indonesia, and in May 2015, while he was still PM, said some European countries had sought Australian advice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the <span class="companylink">EU</span> flatly rejected his call, saying the Australian policies breached international laws on “re-foulement’’, or returning people to danger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have no intention of changing this – so of course the Australian model can never be a model for us,’’ EU spokeswoman on migration Natasha Bertaud said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But as public support for <b>asylum</b> seekers has waned in Europe in the last year, governments have reached out to Australia for advice.In November, the new Europe-wide coast guard and border protection agency, Frontex, invited Australia to give the main address to a conference looking at ways to stem the flow of <b>asylum</b> seekers crossing into Europe in boats.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>euruno : The European Union</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Migration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | pol : Poland | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | eecz : European Union Countries | eeurz : Central/Eastern Europe | eurz : Europe</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020170115ed1f0004n</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-HERSUN0020170115ed1f0003r" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Europe pleads for our advice</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EXCLUSIVE ELLEN WHINNETT </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>443 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EXCLUSIVE LONDON AT least six European countries and the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> have secretly asked Australia for advice on how to stop the flood of <b>asylum</b> seekers crossing into Europe by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The private talks have been held despite the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> publicly rejecting Australia’s tough <b>refugee</b> policies, which include <b>boat</b> turnbacks and offshore processing.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Sunday <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun can reveal that while the <span class="companylink">EU</span> publicly criticised calls by former PM Tony Abbott for Europe to adopt Australian policies, they discreetly asked Australian officials for advice on how to stop the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As recently as November, Australia sent senior Border Force officials to Warsaw in Poland to address border protection agencies that are trying to stem the flow of boats across the Mediterranean, mainly from Libya to Greece and Italy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton declined to detail the discussions or countries involved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood Australia briefed the United Kingdom on its strategy, before then prime minister David Cameron urged <span class="companylink">EU</span> leaders in March to follow the Australian example and turn back boats that were departing from Libya in northern Africa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Austria is also understood to have sought advice from Australia. “A number of European nations and the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> have sought advice from the Australian government on Operation Sovereign Borders,’’ Mr Dutton’s spokesman said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Australia is willing to share its experiences, but it is for individual governments and regions to determine what they believe is the most effective course of action.’’ Mr Dutton is known to have discussed Australia’s policies in September with Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU commissioner for migration, at a meeting in New York.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The commission’s spokeswoman on migration, Natasha Bertaud, said the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> “applies the principle of non-refoulement’’, or not forcing refugees to return to a country where they may be persecuted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But as public support for <b>asylum</b> seekers has waned in Europe in the past year, governments have reached out to Australia for advice on border control.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In November, the new Europe-wide coast guard and border protection agency, Frontex, invited Australia to give the main address to a conference looking at ways to stem the flow of <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Europe is facing its largest migration crisis since World War II with millions of people arriving from Africa and the Middle East. More than 4400 people have drowned since 2015 in <b>boat</b> capsizes on the Mediterranean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Countries are now hardening their migration stance, including Germany, Italy, Hungary, Austria, the Netherlands and France.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Germany has also proposed following Australia by establishing offshore processing centres in Tunisia or Egypt.ellen.whinnett@news.co.uk</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>euruno : The European Union</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Migration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | pol : Poland | eurz : Europe | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | eecz : European Union Countries | eeurz : Central/Eastern Europe</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document HERSUN0020170115ed1f0003r</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-NORTHT0020170115ed1f0001e" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>
EU seeks help on refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>432 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Northern Territory News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NORTHT</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NTNews</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EXCLUSIVE AT least six European countries and the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> have secretly asked Australia for advice on how to stop the flood of <b>asylum</b>-seekers cros­sing into Europe by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The private talks have been held despite the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> publicly rejecting Australia’s tough <b>refugee</b> policies, which include <b>boat</b> turn-backs and offshore processing.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">News Corp</span> can reveal that while the <span class="companylink">EU</span> publicly criticised calls by former prime minister Tony Abbott for Europe to adopt Australian policies, they discreetly asked Australian ­officials for advice on how to stop the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As recently as November, Australia sent senior Border Force officials to Warsaw in Poland to address border protection agencies who are trying to stem the flow of boats across the Mediterranean, mainly from Libya to Greece and Italy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton declined to detail the discussions or countries involved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood Australia briefed the United Kingdom on its strategy, before former UK prime minister David Cameron urged <span class="companylink">EU</span> leaders in March to follow the Australian example and turn back boats which were departing from Libya in northern Africa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Austria is also understood to have sought advice from Australia. “A number of European nations and the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> have sought advice from the Australian Government on Operation Sovereign Borders,’’ Mr Dutton’s spokesman told <span class="companylink">News Corp</span>. “The Minister has personally had discussions with several of his European counterparts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It would not be appropriate to disclose discussions with other governments. “Australia is willing to share its experiences, but it is for individual governments and regions to determine what they believe is the most effective course of action.’’ Mr Dutton is known to have discussed Australia’s policies in September with Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU commissioner for migration, at a meeting in New York.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott three times called on Europe to adopt the policies used by Australia to halt the flow of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats from Indonesia, and in May 2015, while he was still PM, said some European countries had sought Australian advice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> flatly rejected his call, saying the Australian policies breached international laws on “re-foulement’’, or returning people to danger, and “of course’’ would not be accepted by the <span class="companylink">EU</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The commission’s spokeswoman on migration, Natasha Bertaud, said the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> “applies the principle of non-refoulement’’ adding she was “not aware’’ of any discussions with Australia.But as public support for <b>asylum</b> seekers has waned in Europe in the last year, governments have reached out to Australia for advice on how it closed its borders.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>euruno : The European Union</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Migration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | pol : Poland | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | eecz : European Union Countries | eeurz : Central/Eastern Europe | eurz : Europe</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document NORTHT0020170115ed1f0001e</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ADVTSR0020170114ed1f0001b" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Europe: Help us stop boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EXCLUSIVE ELLEN WHINNETT LONDON LONDON </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>650 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AT least six European countries and the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> have secretly asked Australia for advice on how to stop the flood of <b>asylum</b>-seekers crossing the Mediterranean by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The private talks have been held despite the <span class="companylink">EU</span> publicly rejecting Australia’s tough policies, including <b>boat</b> turn-backs and offshore processing.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Sunday Mail can reveal that while the <span class="companylink">EU</span> publicly criticised calls by former prime minister Tony Abbott for Europe to adopt Australian policies, they discreetly asked Australian officials for advice on how to stop the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As recently as November, Australia sent senior Border Force officials to Warsaw in Poland to address border protection agencies trying to stem the flow of boats, mainly to Greece and Italy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CONTINUED PAGE 2 Now Europe’s in same <b>boat</b> from page one Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton declined to detail the discussions or the countries involved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood Australia also briefed the United Kingdom on its strategy, before former UK prime minister David Cameron urged <span class="companylink">EU</span> leaders in March to follow the Australian example and turn back boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Austria is also understood to have sought advice from Australia. “A number of European nations and the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> have sought advice from the Australian Government on Operation Sovereign Borders,’’ Mr Dutton’s spokesman told the Sunday Mail.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The minister has personally had discussions with several of his European counterparts. Australia is willing to share its experiences, but it is for individual governments to determine what they believe is the most effective course of action.’’ Mr Dutton is known to have discussed Australia’s policies in September with Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU commissioner for migration, at a meeting in New York.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the past the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> said Australian policies breached international laws on “re-foulement’’, or returning people to danger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have no intention of changing this – so of course the Australian <b>asylum</b> policy model can never be a model for us,’’ the commission’s spokeswoman on migration, Natasha Bertaud, said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But as public support for <b>asylum</b> seekers has waned in Europe in the last year, governments have reached out to Australia for advice on how it secured its borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In November, the new Europe-wide coastguard and border protection agency, Frontex, invited Australia to give the main address to a conference looking at ways to stem the flow of <b>asylum</b> seekers. The Australian delegation is understood to have spoken about Operational Sovereign Borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The European Coast Guard Cooperation Network Meeting was attended by 40 national authorities from <span class="companylink">EU</span> member countries including navies, border police, customs and maritime authorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Also present were representatives of various <span class="companylink">EU</span> agencies, other <span class="companylink">EU</span> bodies and three international organisations (<span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, <span class="companylink">Interpol</span> and <span class="companylink">NATO</span>), as well as officials from eight non-EU countries,” Frontex said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The organisation confirmed Australia’s attendance but would give no details of the presentation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Europe is facing its largest migration crisis since World War II with millions of people arriving from Africa and the Middle East, and more than 4400 people have drowned since 2015 in <b>boat</b> accidents on the Mediterranean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Austrian foreign minister Sebastian Kurz last year urged the <span class="companylink">EU</span> to follow the “Australian example” to deter <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There is a country we can learn from,” Mr Kurz said. “Australia had a similar problem. But the country managed to decide itself who is allowed to come, and didn’t leave this decision to people-smugglers.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CHANGES TO <b>ASYLUM</b> SEEKER POLICIES Germany: From March, will once again enforce <span class="companylink">EU</span> rules which require migrants to apply for <b>asylum</b> in the first <span class="companylink">EU</span> country they arrive in – mainly Italy and Greece.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Switzerland: Closed its borders near Lake Como to hundreds of African <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">France: Late last year broke up the “jungle camp” at Calais near the border with the UK.Hungary: Has sworn in another 500 “border police’’.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Leftward march of Labor must be halted</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TROY BRAMSTON, SENIOR WRITER </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1066 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Right must reorganise itself to prevent a disastrous outbreak of Corbynism in Australia</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s Left faction is on the march. Although the Left has not exercised significant influence at a national level in the party since the 1970s, it is poised to take control of Labor in the next few years if the Right does not get its act together.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ascendancy of the Left could have profound implications for Labor’s leadership, policies and organisation. But if the more radical elements of the Left gain the upper hand — and there is only a shade of difference with the Greens — Labor is at risk of turning into an antipodean version of Jeremy Corbyn’s unelectable British Labour Party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In recent years, the Left has increased its strength among party members at the national conference, on the national executive, on the national policy forum and in the unions. Left factional warrior Anthony Albanese almost became leader in 2013. Left powerbroker Mark Butler seized the national presidency in 2015.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The biggest domino to fall was the Left winning control of the Queensland branch of the party from the <span class="companylink">Australian Workers Union</span>-backed Right faction in 2014. The Left now has more party members than the Right in Queensland, more state MPs and more ministers in the Palaszczuk government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Right firmly controls only one major party branch: NSW. In the bifurcated Victorian branch, various sub-factions of the Right share power in an unstable alliance. The Right dominates the small South Australian branch. But everywhere else the Left is entrenched.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the 2015 presidential election, Butler won 30.9 per cent of the rank-and-file vote. The two other Left candidates — Jane Garrett and Louise Pratt — received a combined 35.8 per cent. That’s two-thirds of party members voting for Left candidates. The only candidate the Right officially backed, Tim Hammond, won 24.4 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A month later, the Left took a spot from the Right on the 21-member national executive. The all-powerful national executive is now divided equally between the Right and the Left, with Bill Shorten holding a casting vote. If Albanese had won the leadership, the casting vote would have gone to the Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year, the Left won control of Labor’s national policy forum. It prepares the draft platform ahead of conferences and provides recommendations on policy. It is made up of 20 MPs, 20 union representatives, 20 party members plus eight officials. The Left holds 35 votes to the Right’s 33.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Right did not have a majority of delegates at the national conference in 2015 but was able to stitch together deals with independents and elements of the Left. But next year the Left expects to have a majority because 150 out of 400 delegates will now be elected by members rather than state conferences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Keep in mind that the Left ran a campaign at the last conference to shift policy away from the centre on taxation, trade, climate change, workplace relations and Palestine. The Left came close to overturning Labor’s hardline <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy, which includes <b>boat</b> turnbacks. The Left also tried to make voting for same-sex marriage binding on all MPs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten — a supreme dealmaker — was critical in limiting the party’s slide leftward. Imagine if Albanese, who voted against the majority position on <b>asylum</b>-seekers, were leader. It would be electoral suicide. Shorten only narrowly defeated Albanese in a combined ballot of party members and MPs to become leader with 52.02 per cent of the vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Will Shorten be the last leader from the Right? The likeliest future leaders from the Right are Chris Bowen or Richard Marles, and possibly Tony Burke.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But they will struggle in a ballot of MPs and party members against Tanya Plibersek, Butler or Albanese — who has not surrendered his ambition to lead the party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Right has backed a Left leader when it has had nobody of its own to elevate. Think Julia Gillard (federal), Jay Weatherill (South Australia), Daniel Andrews (Victoria) and Luke Foley (NSW). And there was talk a year ago within the Right about backing Albanese when Shorten tumbled in the polls. This underscores the decline of the Right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unions aligned to the Right — the AWU, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association and the Transport Workers Union — have been a countervailing influence against Left unions such as the <span class="companylink">Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union</span> and the <span class="companylink">Australian Manufacturing Workers Union</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet many of the unions’ rising stars are from the Left: Jo-anne Schofield (<span class="companylink">United Voice</span>), Michele O’Neil (Textile Clothing & Footwear Union), Luba Grigorovitch (Victorian Rail, Tram and Bus Union) and Tim Ayres (NSW AMWU). The Right can point to Daniel Walton (AWU), Mark Morey (<span class="companylink">Unions NSW</span>) and Tara Moriarty (NSW Liquor and Hospitality Division of <span class="companylink">United Voice</span>).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the machine, the Right does have some of the party’s shrewdest campaigners: national secretary Noah Carroll, NSW secretary Kaila Murnain, Victorian secretary Sam Rae, South Australian secretary Reggie Martin and West Australian assistant secretary Lenda Oshalem.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Where the Right does maintain a stranglehold is in the most important forum of all: the 95-member federal caucus. The Right has 50 MPs to the Left’s 44 (which includes four Industrial Left) plus one non-aligned (Andrew Leigh). But as the Left’s grip tightens throughout the party, how long will the Right’s caucus majority last?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some in the Right fear Labor is being Corbynised. The US Democrats face the same problem with Bernie Sanders. While Labor has become more democratic, it has not become more representative of the community. Many in the Right blame direct election reforms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The one compensation for the Right is that the Left is often divided. Kim Carr formed a breakaway caucus Left faction last year. The Left split over the national presidency and at national conference. Shorten has made the most of these divisions by forming alliances with Left powerbrokers.But the Right cannot rely on the Left’s propensity to implode. It must recruit and promote a new generation of members, MPs, officials, unionists and leaders. And unless the Right can reanimate its driving mission to sustain a moderate, centrist and pragmatic Labor Party, it will have no hope of halting the rise of the Left.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Grand old river lady cruises back to her prime</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CRAIG COOK </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1370 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the state’s oldest authentic paddle steamer and a vessel of national importance, the P.W. Mayflower has had a charmed life and a fascinating career chugging up and down the River Murray. With the help of volunteers, she has been fully restored, as CRAIG COOK reports.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">KNOWN from her earliest days as the “prettiest craft on the River”, the paddlewheeler, Mayflower, was built more than 130 years ago on the order of one of the Murray’s most colourful characters, a giant West Indian nicknamed “Black Alex”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She has been restored to former glories - at the cost of more than $200,000 - by the hard work and dedication of dozens of volunteers at her Mannum base.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Generous benefactors Robert O’Callaghan, founder and owner of Rockford winery, and wife Pam O’Donnell, bought the <b>boat</b> in a dilapidated shape at a cost of $100,000 in 2014.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Barossa couple also provided additional funds for the restoration, undertaken by experienced and amateur shipwrights under the watchful eye of custodians from the Mannum Dock Museum.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When the Mayflower was dying on the riverbank at Wellington it was Pam’s idea to buy it and gift it to the Mannum Dock Museum because they could provide all the expertise to restore her,” Mr O’Callaghan said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The whole town has lifted as this museum has grown over 15 years. They are bringing a lot of pride and energy back to Mannum and a lot of River towns haven’t got that.” The collaborative Mayflower restoration was completed in two and a half years when SA Governor, Hieu Van Le, recommissioned the craft in November.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Governor, who arrived in Darwin by <b>boat</b> as a Vietnam <b>refugee</b> in 1977, proved a natural navigator and thoroughly enjoyed his time behind the wheel on a short trip on the river as part of the biennial “All Steamed Up” event.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dick Bromhead, an old salt with a hundred tales of boating on the Murray was Captain for the day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The vessel handled beautifully and purred like a kitten”, the 70-year-old said nodding with satisfaction.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The restoration project is a credit to those who contributed to bring the Mayflower back to the 1913 era.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s a wonderful thing to see the project come to fruition as there are other historic boats that have been neglected in SA”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Daniel Alexander commissioned shipbuilders Wilson & Burkett, at Moama (opposite Echuca) on the Murray, to construct the flat-bottomed Mayflower in 1884.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fifteen metres long, four metres wide and weighing 20 tonnes, she was built on a steel frame, with a hull of red gum and decks and cabins of kauri pine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She was agile enough to work the many tributaries of the Murray but her low-power ratio restricted headway against a strong current when sailing up stream.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Alexander, an illiterate hawker, who used the Mayflower as a “Bottle-O” was an imposing figure of the day, who claimed Scotch blood and US citizenship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He swore he was the greatest swearer on the river and the greatest talker. Yarns of his immense strength have become legendary and a journalist reported, “He could carry half a ton of iron as easily as I could carry ten pounds of potatoes”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 1890, when “Black Alex” ran up substantial debts, the National Bank repossessed the Mayflower while delivering a load of wood to Hay on the Murrumbidgee River but her Master stole her back and made his way along to Swan Hill in Victoria where he was arrested.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The vessel was taken over by bankers and eventually sold for a song to Alexander’s great mate, Billy “Pirate’ Wilson”, who loaned it straight back to him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tragically, Alexander found work as a cook on the “PS Australien”, another of Wilson’s crafts, but drowned soon after when, allegedly drunk, he fell overboard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just before the establishment of Federation in 1901, the Mayflower was sold to Harry Creager Snr, head of a fishing family from Renmark that included wife Mary and sons Harry Jnr and August.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The family lived on the <b>boat</b>, moored at a site today close to Lock 2 at Cadell, and made a living pulling thousands of monster Murray cod from the River.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When their parents died, Harry and August took over the fishing business and brought their brides to live on the steamer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A top cabin was built on by August after his marriage to Dorothy in 1913 and their daughter, Dolly, was born in the cabin the next year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The distinctive “Sunrise” or “Sunflower” Paddle Boxes, were also designed at this time and the current <b>boat</b> has been restored to this period. In 1919, August purchased the PS Enterprise – now moored on Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra as part of the <span class="companylink">National Museum of Australia</span> – and moved his family on board.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Harry, who died in 1929, his wife Annie and other family members continued to live and fish from the Mayflower until the early 1940s when they moved to Salisbury and the <b>boat</b> was sold to Norm Collins.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She had several owners in the next decade until Captain Hilary Hogg, known as “Paddy”, purchased her for 700 pounds in the early 1950s. He promptly removed the boiler and engine – selling them for scrap – and began dismantling the paddle wheels and demolishing the top deck.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first “Miracle of the Mayflower” began with the intervention of iconic entrepreneur, Alby Pointon, who spotted the floating wreck at Mildura from his Popeye Riverboat and bought her in 1956.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He converted the <b>boat</b> from steam to diesel – that she runs on today – and named her the “PS Mayflower Showboat”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Carrying a maximum of 60 passengers, she operated as a passenger cruiser for 12 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Late in 1968, the Mayflower was sold to Tommy Barr Smith and used as a houseboat by him and subsequent owners.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just months before her centenary birthday in 1984, Dr Brice Douglas purchased the Mayflower for private use and his family completed many long and happy journeys.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The little fishing <b>boat</b>, from the romantic age of River travel, proved a star during filming for the documentary River Murray: Source to Sea in 2001 when she led the entire steamboat fleet into Morgan – which became the title shot for the film.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Twelve years later, while moored at Wellington, the tiny steamer’s adventures appeared over when a massive storm struck the region and Mayflower sunk at her moorings, on Mayday, 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Raised after five days she sank again three days later.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She would probably have remained as a hulking rotting hull without the foresight of her benefactors who have a long association with Riverboats, including the PS Marion, also housed at Mannum Museum where Pam O’Donnell was a board member for 20 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The purchase price was high but readily agreed to as Dr Douglas and his wife Ruth sent all the money to a school in Uganda they helped establish 19 years ago and continue to supply students with clothing, medicine and food.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The school, the only educational facility in a border town of 40,000 that mainly holds Rwandan refugees, is now called ‘The Mayflower’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, the dramas for the maritime Mayflower weren’t yet over as her gearbox failed just out of Wellington and she had the indignity of being towed the rest of the way to her new port.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“After all the hard work to restore her, the first day the paddle wheel turned and the engine worked was a lovely day,” Deb Alexander from Mid-Murray Council, and a driving force of the project, said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Mayflower, listed on the Australian Register of Historic Vessels, will see a cruising revival from her “Showboat” days with weekly short cruises, picnic cruises and private charter operating from the Mannum Dock Museum beginning from late February.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One dream remains: to one day sail the little fishing <b>boat</b> back to her birthplace at Moama.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It would potentially be a 40-day round trip but Captain Bromhead is up for the navigational challenges.“That would complete the circle and be a fitting tribute for this remarkable and beautiful River survivor,” he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The art of bringing a window of war history to life again</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sally Pryor </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>507 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dacchi Dang was just 16 when he left his hometown of Saigon, folding himself into an 11-metre fishing <b>boat</b> and setting sail for Malaysia in 1982.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With him were his two sisters, his brother and around 135 others, all crammed like sardines in the hold of a <b>boat</b> designed to carry four or five people, and all looking for a better life outside war-torn Vietnam.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nearly 35 years later, Dang is still fascinated by the social upheaval that has led to the splintering of several different cultures, the blossoming of a new culture in his adopted homeland of Australia, and a generation of veterans from both countries, still living with their experiences on the battlefield.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As a teenager, he spent nine months in a Malaysian camp with his siblings, before being accepted as refugees to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He learnt English, finished high school and eventually completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the <span class="companylink">University of New South Wales</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His experiences, as well as the events that led to his traumatic journey to Australia and subsequent assimilation, are themes that arise constantly in his work as an artist.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has just spent six weeks as an artist in residence at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, which has commissioned him to create works informed by the relationship between Australian and South Vietnamese veterans.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The commission is the result of a bequest from retired Major John Milton Gillespie, a Vietnam veteran and immigration consultant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The memorial decided to use the bequest to commission a work of art that explores the wartime experience of Vietnamese-Australians and its continued legacy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Most of my work in the past explores culture and memory in Vietnam. The early work is informed a lot by <b>refugee</b> and <b>boat</b> experience, and also the notion of home, and the impact on Vietnamese people living away from home, looking at how they integrate into new societies and cultures," Dang said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's not until this year I had the opportunity and fortune â€¦ to look specifically at the relationship between the Australian veterans who served in Vietnam, and also of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the first half of the commission he plans to print photographic images taken from the War Memorial's collection onto plywood panels and overlay them with lacquer - a traditional Vietnamese technique.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a new avenue for him as an artist, and the use of lacquer has several layers of symbolism in it; for example, the lacquer is derived from rubber trees, and the Battle of Long Tan, one of the most infamous episodes from the Vietnam War, took place in a rubber plantation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The work has a lot of symbolism and meaning behind how it's constructed in the final pieces," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I've tried to put links through the materials, through the images, through the stories and all that, using that to tell the story between our veterans and others."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Human rights body blasts Australia's detention regime</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tom McIlroy Political reporter </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>510 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Annual review - Strongmen rulers also under scrutiny</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">International human rights advocates have slammed the Turnbull government's offshore immigration detention regime as well as its attempts to strengthen counter-terrorism laws in a review of practices around the world.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The latest report by <span class="companylink">Human Rights Watch</span> also highlights the rise of populist politicians such as US President-elect Donald Trump and strongmen leaders in Russia, the Philippines, Turkey and China as putting the postwar system of universal rights at risk, warning that converging trends of authoritarianism, fake news and rejection of fact will challenge efforts to promote tolerance and equality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks, silencing of offshore medical staff and service providers and ineffective resettlement schemes in Papua New Guinea and Cambodia are highlighted in the report, which singles out immigration detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru for specific breaches of human rights and describes the policies as highly secretive and draconian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The annual review of more than 90 countries, which was released on Thursday in Washington, says Indigenous Australians remain disproportionately subject to the criminal justice system and criticises political blocks to same-sex marriage and effective administration of the Human Rights Act.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Human Rights Watch</span> says of the more than 900 <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees are living on Manus Island, only about 25 have been allowed to move to the PNG mainland to work in Lae or Port Moresby.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report says several returned to Manus over fears to their safety and poor work and living conditions. Another 1200 refugees housed on Nauru "regularly endure violence, threats, and harassment from Nauruans, with little protection from local authorities," the report said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gay and lesbian <b>asylum</b> seekers in both countries continue to face harassment and abuse, despite Nauru's decriminalisation of same-sex conduct.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"[Detainees] face unnecessary delays in, and at times denial of, medical care, even for life-threatening conditions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Many have dire mental health problems and suffer from depression. Self-harm and suicide attempts are frequent. In May 2016, two refugees self-immolated in separate incidents; one died and the other was badly burned."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report also highlights the failure of Northern Territory justice officials to act on reports of human rights abuses in the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, a controversy which prompted Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to establish a royal commission.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition's ongoing moves to strengthen counter-terrorism laws, including allowing judges to authorise continuing detention for offenders who have served their sentences but who are considered an "unacceptable risk" to the community, risk "arbitrary and indefinite detention using a low standard of proof and secret evidence".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth said Mr Trump's election and moves away from human rights protections by leaders such as the Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin in Russia were a key concern for 2017.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Trump and various politicians in Europe seek power through appeals to racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and nativism," he said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>hrwny : Human Rights Watch</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | gimm : Migration | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>papng : Papua New Guinea | austr : Australia | nauru : Nauru | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020170112ed1d00040</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020170111ed1c00047" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>'We have been tested beyond endurance'</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>IMRAN MOHAMMAD </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>634 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I am trapped in Australia's camp on Manus Island but I have remained the master of my soul. While I don't have control over my life, I have never relinquished control over my mind. I have accomplished a great grasp of the English language, even though I could barely say a few words when I arrived here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I am writing because everyone's mood here has darkened beyond understanding. We have begun our fourth year behind the same fence without hope and a clear future. It feels like we don't exist. Behind our calm exterior, we are rotting from the inside. Hence, everything we suffer goes unnoticed.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My ancestors have lived in Rakhine, Myanmar, for generations. However, our country doesn't acknowledge the existence of Muslims. We are considered illegal migrants in our own land. Rohingyans are not allowed birth certificates or any documentation to prove our citizenship or our existence. Therefore, there is no way to leave our country legally, even though we are considered the most persecuted cultural group in the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our families have been stuck in <span class="companylink">UN</span> camps throughout Asia waiting decades for visas. So we are left with no choice, except to take a <b>boat</b> ride and risk our lives to find protection. People who are at imminent risk of death don't make plans before they start travelling. We just jump into oceans to escape persecution. Oceans are our lifeline because it is the only way we can seek safety. As a Rohingya I would never be able to come by plane, which is the accepted way to seek <b>asylum</b>. I would require an immense number of documents to apply for a visa. I would need more than $US5000 in cash to be able to board the plane. But, even with all these papers, it is very unlikely I'd be granted a visa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And now after three years of imprisonment, the government is trying to impose a lifetime ban on refugees from ever entering Australia. Some men wasting away on Manus left on a <b>boat</b> only two days after their wife and children. In those two days Australia closed its borders. We had no idea of the policy change, we were busy surviving.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And we are shattered by Faysal Ishak Ahmed's unnecessary death. It feels like an Australian-run detention camp is a death sentence; we refugees are going to die one by one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I didn't know what depression was and how catastrophically it debilitates. Now I see with my own eyes what it does. Many men around me came to Manus as healthy young men but have been turned into a shadow of who they once were by the enduring hopelessness. They don't even know they are suffering. All they want is to stay in their bunk beds, wrapping bedsheets around the frame, blocking out their surroundings, the light and humans. It is like living in a coffin, and I know that often they wish they were already dead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I hoped Australia would finally end this sense of feeling irrelevant, yet instead it has reinforced it. While the torture in my country is transparent, in Australia it is not obvious.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We hope the US acts quickly to get us out of this endless prison. We have been tested beyond our endurance and our threshold has reached saturation point. My abilities are being eroded after spending almost six years in various detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All we crave is what all people crave: freedom and a chance at a life in safety so we can contribute to this world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On behalf of the men on Manus Island, I ask the world to do something to end Australia's political game on vulnerable refugees.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | papng : Papua New Guinea | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020170111ed1c00047</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ADVTSR0020170104ed1500061" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>OpEd</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>THE LAST WORD</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>WITH MARTY SMITH </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>545 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MOUTHING OFF (1) Laughter is the best medicine: “Oh God”, sighed the wife one morning, “I’m convinced my mind is almost completely gone!” Her husband looked up and commented, “I’m not surprised. You’ve been giving me a piece of it every day for 20 years!” (2) Tabloid headline: “How you can tell if your neighbour’s a werewolf”. (3) From the comic strip Ginger Meggs: “My cup of sorrow is a whine glass.” (4) In the Twittersphere: “My new thing is going to be replying ‘This whole thing is nuts!’ on every <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> comment thread. Not even going to read them first.” – US writer-comedian Jake Fogelnest. (5) I am not making this up: Octopuses have existed over a thousand times longer than humans.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">INSIGHT “Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.” – sign on an office wall.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">QUOTE, UNQUOTE “We must not let daylight in upon the magic.” – English journalist, economist and political analyst Walter Bagehot.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">KEEPING COUNT 7567 – the number of Victorians who moved to South Australia in 2000. JUST A THOUGHT Experience is the dividend you get from your mistakes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">REMEMBER WHEN Today is January 5, National Whipped Cream Day in the US and the fifth day of the year. There are 360 days remaining until the end of the year. On this day: 1953: South Australia’s first night soccer game was played at Norwood Oval. 1954: Vernon Smith, honorary curator of the Port Adelaide Nautical Museum, said unless other accommodation was found within the next year, many of the exhibits would have to be put in storage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1962: In the animated series The Flintstones, on Channel 7, Fred hypnotised Barney Rubble with disastrous results.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1966: The Hanover County School Board in the American state of Virginia banned To Kill a Mockingbird, by US author Harper Lee, from school shelves after one of its members called the book “immoral literature”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1968: Radio station 5KA listed Sadie (the Cleaning Lady), by Australian singer Johnny Farnham, as Adelaide’s No. 1 hit single.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1972: US president Richard Nixon ordered development of the space shuttle. 1973:Bruce Springsteen’s debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., was released in the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1995: From The Advertiser: “China has blamed Australia for bringing the flood of <b>boat</b> people to its shores by granting <b>refugee</b> status to earlier arrivals. A Chinese Embassy spokesman warned yesterday it had no obligation to allow the ethnic Chinese-Vietnamese to return to China.” 2000: After being heckled during a match at Memorial Drive, Lleyton Hewitt described Australian tennis fans as “stupid”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2008: From the front page of The Weekend Australian: “The race for the White House in 2008 is off to an extraordinary start, with African-American Barack Obama yesterday defying conventional wisdom and recording a thumping first-up victory over Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president.”2016: From The Advertiser: “Security officials are racing to identify a young boy with an apparent English accent who featured in a sickening new Islamic State execution video. They fear the child, thought to be just five years old, is a member of one of dozens of families who have gone to the blood-soaked war zone.”</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | saustr : South Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ADVTSR0020170104ed1500061</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020170104ed150001m" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Despite the darkness, children can see hope</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JOHN STEWART - John Stewart is president of UNICEF Australia. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>631 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It would be fair to say 2016 was a challenging year, particularly for children. Natural disasters, conflict, political upheavals, famine and disease always pose the greatest threat to the most fragile.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet, every time I am in the field, I see children who, despite their often dire situation, have the capacity to play, to smile and above all, to hope. Looking into their eyes I see resilience, strength and determination for a better future.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With nearly a quarter of the world's children now living in conflict or disaster-stricken countries and almost 50 million children uprooted from their homes, we are experiencing the largest <b>refugee</b> emergency since World War II. And the crises causing children and their families to flee are getting worse, not better.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But as we reflect on a difficult year and consider what 2017 may bring, we must take a leaf out of the book of those most affected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I have seen more bravery, resolve and resourcefulness than you'd think possible from a child. And I'm sure every single person who works for and with children around the world would say the same.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Take Hiba Al Naboisi, a 10-year-old Syrian girl, who has spent half her life in war and endured a treacherous journey to safety. As bombs rained down on her native home of Deraa, one of the towns most heavily affected by Syria's armed conflict, Hiba saw her friends and neighbours dying around her and could do nothing to stop it. Her eldest brother was killed as her family fled the country and the simple pleasures of childhood - school, friends, play and laughter - were very far away as she traversed the cold and stormy Mediterranean Sea in a tiny rubber <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hiba now lives in a <b>refugee</b> and migrant transit centre near the town of Gevgelija, in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Like some 200 other <b>refugee</b> and migrant families, Hiba's family live in a small, mass-produced metal shelter, too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. They can't leave the gates of the centre and don't know how long they'll need to wait for a settlement solution, a new life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet, despite the devastation of war, the trauma of fleeing her home and the long, perilous journey to a foreign land, Hiba loves her life in the camp. She spends as much time as possible in the camp's child-friendly space, learning English, German and Macedonian, drawing, playing and dancing; being a child. Hiba is again a sunny girl with big dreams and unbreakable optimism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She says: "I'm very strong and competent. I'm very strong. I know my future is very bright. I want to become a teacher and teach children, because all children deserve a good life - a good life for all."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We must look forward with hope and determination, to a better future for all the world's children. As the global migrant and <b>refugee</b> crisis continues, as conflicts endure, as disease and natural disasters strike, the one constant is the need to protect and support children, our future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia and Australians have long been at the forefront of work to ensure that every child is given a fair chance in life. We excel as donors and as international development and humanitarian personnel, working relentlessly in some of the world's toughest places to reach the most vulnerable children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians are world leaders at rallying when things get tough. So as 2017 unfolds, we must continue to be compassionate, generous and practical contributors on the world stage, bringing help and hope to those who need it most.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020170104ed150001m</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-NEHR000020170103ed140000l" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Newcastle’s welcome to refugees from Syria</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>403 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WITH all of the hostility that surrounds the immigration and <b>refugee</b> debate both here and abroad, it is reassuring to know that a recently arrived Syrian family have been made to feel welcome in Newcastle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an interview with Newcastle Herald journalist Scott Bevan, the Alkasim family, now living in suburban Wallsend, tell of their escape from the Syrian capital, Damascus, and of their joy at being accepted for resettlement here under Australia's expanded humanitarian intake of refugees.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Warned they may encounter hostility on the night - wearing the hijab is a fairly obvious form of identification - the Alkasim family received only smiles and greetings at the New Year's Eve foreshore fireworks. It's a similar situation, they say, when they shop at Glendale or Wallsend, where people see them and say hello. While there is nothing particularly surprising about this - the Hunter has long prided itself as an accepting and multicultural region - an embrace of difference is not always automatic in an age characterised by a global fear of terrorism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In policy terms, the federal government has made a sharp distinction between different types of refugees, classing those who arrive by <b>boat</b> as illegal arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the Coalition's hard line approach has quite clearly achieved what it set out to do - it has indeed stopped the boats - it has been at considerable cost to those who arrived since our national policy of offshore processing began, trapping them in indefinite detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The federal government's demonisation of those arriving in Australia "illegally" will have also helped to harden community attitudes about refugees from the Middle East, even though - as the Alkasim family's experience helps us see - most people fleeing war-torn parts of the world are motivated only by a legitimate human desire to live peacefully and without threat. Unfortunately, however, such resettled families as the Alkasim are sadly in the minority.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As many as 500,000 Syrians are estimated to have died in the conflict. The United Nations says more than 4 million Syrians - almost a quarter of the population - have fled the war-torn nation since 2011, and almost 9 million are regarded as displaced inside their own borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With numbers like this, Australia's 12,000 extra places - which includes refugees from Iraq - are but a drop in the ocean. A valuable drop, but a drop nonetheless.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ISSUE: 38,431</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Immigration/Asylum | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>syria : Syria | austr : Australia | damas : Damascus | nswals : New South Wales | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | meastz : Middle East | medz : Mediterranean | wasiaz : Western Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document NEHR000020170103ed140000l</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020170102ed130001h" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>We are giving in to a year of living fearfully</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Paul Syvret </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>783 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">F ear is a powerful political weapon. It’s an easy thing to manufacture fear of the unknown, fear of change and fear of others, and requires far less effort than offering a vision of hope and opportunity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In recent years, fear has become the political currency of choice and, sadly, 2017 looks like more of the same.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Take Malcolm Turnbull’s new year message.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While most world leaders delivered messages of optimism, the Prime Minister played the fear card.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After telling us we should be grateful to live in a harmonious society, with people of all faiths, cultures and backgrounds living together in peace, it was time for portents of doom.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All that was needed was a reference to “Team Australia” and a few more flags and it could have passed as a Tony Abbott speech.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At what is traditionally a time when we look forward with a sense of renewal, it was a particularly dark missive, but then should we be that surprised given the tone of debate in Australia of late where everything is cast as a threat that must be opposed?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At an economic level, we have been subjected to years of florid warnings about debt and deficit disasters as justification to inflict spending cuts that target the most vulnerable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We should fear the potential loss of our AAA credit rating, fear the legacy of debt we are allegedly bequeathing future generations, the latter of which conveniently ignores the healing powers of inflation and GDP growth that work to reduce the size of borrowings relative to the economy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We should fear foreigners, especially those desperate enough to try to reach our shores by <b>boat</b> because they will simultaneously take our jobs and lounge about on welfare — and, no, I don’t get the logic here either, but then who am I to doubt the wisdom of Immigration Minster Peter Dutton?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We should be deeply suspicious of any displays of compassion towards the people we have locked up in tropical prison camps, because the misery and despair of <b>asylum</b> seekers is somehow necessary for our national security and, besides, every <b>refugee</b> who dies due to lack of medical treatment on Manus Island is one who didn’t drown at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Well done us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We should fear Islam because we are told by some of the more fevered voices on the Right, that not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim — they are “not like us”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We must fear and resist the progressive voices (who are clearly in league with the Muslims), who preach tolerance, for they will erode the very fabric of our society and debase our most cherished traditions by using phrases such as “happy holidays”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We must not trust the academics or experts because they are fifth columnists in the culture wars, indoctrinating impressionable young minds to believe that homosexuality is not a mortal sin and science isn’t a part of a global conspiracy engineered by the United Nations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We must fight the creeping fog spread by politically correct social justice warriors who seek to restrict our right to vilify and humiliate someone based on their ethnicity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We must fight the trade unions at every turn because they are apparently corrupt and lawless and workers don’t need a united voice because business can always be trusted to do the right thing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We need to be aware of the existential threat posed by environmentalists, an unwashed rent-a-crowd that wants to destroy our economy and condemn us to perpetual darkness in the name of some pagan green fundamentalism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We must reserve particular contempt for the “leaners”, the “bludgers” and the “double dippers”, who suck at the welfare teat, because if we don’t make their lives miserable at every opportunity, how will we be able to afford $50 billion of business tax cuts?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All of these societal subsets pose a real threat to our very way of life and it is OK to demonise them because they are “other”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amid all this swirling mass of fear and loathing, we have somehow forgotten what it actually does mean to be Australian; we’ve debased principles such as tolerance, egalitarianism, generosity of spirit and the concept of a fair go, and replaced it with anxiety and anger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We’ve brought ourselves to the point where compassion is condemned as weakness and having a basic belief in social justice and equity somehow makes you a virtue-signalling leftist, snowflake flog who lives in a groupthink echo chamber.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So be it. I’d rather be a flog than spend 2017 swimming in my own bile.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>waustr : Western Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020170102ed130001h</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020170101ed1200024" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Hand orders detention of illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Rachel Baxendale </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>449 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CABINET PAPERS 1992-93</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 438 Vietnamese, Cambodian and Chinese “boatpeople” who arrived on nine vessels between November 1989 and January 1992 pale in comparison with the 25,173 <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> in the 2012-13 financial year, but the influx was enough to persuade Keating government immigration minister Gerry Hand to introduce mandatory detention of unauthorised <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The cabinet papers show that “as a matter of urgency”, cabinet agreed in April 1992 to amend the migration act to require mandatory detention of “persons who have arrived in Australia by <b>boat</b> since 20 November, 1989, or who arrive in Australia before 1 November, 1992, and who have not been processed to enter Australia”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The move meant that the 438 who had already arrived, some of whom were living in the community, were to be taken into detention and held “for a defined period” until their claims could be resolved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Initially there was a nine-month, or 273-day, limit on detention but this was later made indefinite and extended to all unlawful non-citizens by Hand’s successor as immigration minister, Nick Bolkus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hand’s 1992 legislation also prevented any judicial review of the mandatory detention by stipulating that “a court is not to order the release from custody of a designated person”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the time, litigation arguing for the release from custody of 37 people already detained under existing provisions was imminent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">April 29 cabinet papers note that the government expected this would “undoubtedly lead to similar action by all other detainees”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hand said although cabinet expected support for the proposal within the general Australian community, the scheme was likely to generate criticism from “churches, the <span class="companylink"><b>Refugee</b> Council of Australia</span> and other human rights organisations, legal aid commissions, certain ethnic communities and the media”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I have consistently argued that any softening of approach by the government in relation to unauthorised arrivals in this country, including their custody, will be an invitation to persons without genuine claims to pursue the same route,” Hand wrote in his submission to the April 29 meeting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet expressed concern that the legislation was “designed to deprive a person of a right to challenge the legality of his or her continued detention” and advised it should be “a measure of last resort and only used in circumstances that can be justified on clear public policy grounds”.“While the department is sympathetic to the minister’s situation, it is clear that any government action motivated by a desire to facilitate the proper processes will be the subject of intense public scrutiny and criticism,” it said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Immigration/Asylum | gpol : Domestic Politics | gvexe : Executive Branch | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | gvbod : Government Bodies</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020170101ed1200024</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020170101ed1200016" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> ethics rethink required</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>491 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A012</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> ethics rethink required</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">E ach new year brings, via the National Archives' release of cabinet documents, previously unseen insights into past decisions that shaped the nation. This year, the archives released minutes from 1992 and 1993 - from before and after Paul Keating's "sweetest victory of all". Australia, emerging from recession, was grappling with its identity. MrKeating wanted to break from the past. He promoted multiculturalism, a republic, a new flag and the right of gay men to serve in the military. He continued to deregulate the economy, privatising government-owned businesses and shifting workers onto enterprise agreements. The High Court delivered the Mabo decision and his government passed the Native Title Act into law. The scope of change was immense. Mr Keating oversaw another change that was overshadowed by other events: his government introduced mandatory detention of <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b>. What's striking about this decision now is that what was then seen as a "crisis" involved a trickle of <b>boat</b> people. Just 438 had arrived over 26 months. By comparison, the later influx during the Gillard government, which led to the botched "Malaysia solution", involved almost 100 times as many <b>asylum</b> seekers over a similar period. The Keating government is regarded as one of Australia's least conservative. Nonetheless, its immigration minister, Gerry Hand, told cabinet in 1992 that "any softening of approach by the government in relation to unauthorised arrivals in this country, including their custody, will be an invitation to persons without genuine claims to pursue the same route". He added that if the government failed to "maintain strict border controls and regulate who is allowed into the ... community, there is a grave potential for Australia to become an easy target for spontaneous mass movement". The line of argument was near identical to that employed later by John Howard and Tony Abbott when they endorsed processing refugees offshore. A quarter of a century after the Keating government cracked down on <b>boat</b> people, Australia's policy has become one of the harshest in the Western world. Both Labor and Coalition governments eventually proposed banning <b>boat</b> people from calling Australia home, on the spurious basis that they were jumping "queues" of law-abiding refugees. The <b>boat</b> people were sent to Nauru and, until recently, Papua New Guina, which lack genuine resettlement opportunities. They were detained for cruel lengths of time. Marking a low point, detailed reports emerged in 2015 that Australian spies had for years bribed smugglers to turn their boatloads of refugees back to Indonesia. The government neither confirmed nor denied these reports, but they effectively undid the moral basis of offshore detention. Malcolm Turnbull recently expressed his concern about the welfare of <b>asylum</b> seekers detained offshore. That's not enough. He must make 2017 the year in which Australia rediscovers an ethical approach to refugees, which it first began to lose 25 years ago.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Immigration/Asylum | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020170101ed1200016</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020170101ed1200001" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Forget Tampa: the <b>boat</b> people panic began earlier</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Markus Mannheim </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>606 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Forget Tampa: the <b>boat</b> people panic began earlier</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Markus Mannheim</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vietnamese <b>boat</b> people arriving in the early 1980s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"[A]ny softening of approach by the government in relation to unauthorised arrivals in this country, including their custody, will be an invitation to persons without genuine claims to pursue the same route." This warning against <b>boat</b> people echoes the politics of Tony Abbott's "stop the boats" campaigns of 2010 and 2013, and the so- called "Tampa" election of 2001, won by John Howard after his government tried to stop a boatload of refugees from reaching the Australian mainland. Yet the words belonged to then Labor immigration minister Gerry Hand in April 1992, who implored his cabinet colleagues to introduce mandatory detention of <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b>. Newly released cabinet archives show that Mr Hand, from Labor's Left faction, also warned that, if the government failed to "maintain strict border controls and regulate who is allowed into the ... community, there is a grave potential for Australia to become an easy target for spontaneous mass movement".The "crisis" of 1992 that led to mandatory detention was prompted by nine boats carrying 438 mostly Indochinese <b>asylum</b> seekers, who had reached Australia over the preceding 26 months. Most were from Cambodia. By comparison, almost 38,000 <b>boat</b> people arrived in 2012 and 2013 alone. A small group of <b>boat</b> people during the early 1990s had challenged a decision to deny them <b>refugee</b> status. Fearing how the courts might react, Mr Hand told cabinet that detention was necessary while <b>asylum</b> seekers' claims were checked. "Once these people have entered the communities of the host country and have stayed there for several years, their claims to remain permanently are influenced by factors unrelated to the original claims for <b>refugee</b> status such as marriage and other compassionate or humanitarian grounds," his cabinet proposal reads. His policy, eventually adopted, also allowed the government to detain any <b>asylum</b> seeker who had arrived in the previous two years. However, Mr Hand said he would limit detention to nine months and ensure that <b>refugee</b> claims were processed more quickly. The released cabinet minute does not document how individual ministers reacted to the proposal, which was highly controversial among human rights and some legal groups. However, it had the support of the departments of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Attorney-General's, Foreign Affairs, Treasury and Finance.The Attorney- General's Department's main concern was how to sell the policy to the public. It said it was "essential that at the time the legislation is introduced careful consideration be given to explaining the need and justification for this legislation". The only hint of public service criticism appeared to come from prime minister Paul Keating's department.It warned that laws "designed to deprive a person of a right to challenge the legality of his or her continued detention should be a measure of last resort and only used in circumstances that can be justified on clear public policy grounds". "While the department is sympathetic to the minister's situation, it is clear that any government action motivated by a desire to facilitate the proper processes will be the subject of intense public scrutiny and criticism. Whatever the real reasons, there exists a public perception that the current situation of the <b>boat</b> people (some of whom have been in detention for over two years) has resulted from government inaction." Public debate has moved on in the 25 years since. Mandatory detention of <b>asylum</b> seekers is now relatively uncontroversial in Australia, which sends all <b>boat</b>-borne refugees to other countries.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RF</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>84142403</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Immigration/Asylum | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020170101ed1200001</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-HERSUN0020170101ed110002n" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Arrivals led to start of detention policy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROB HARRIS </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>336 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE bedrock of Australia’s immigration policy — mandatory detention of <b>asylum</b> seekers — was sparked out of concerns Australia would become “an easy target”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cabinet papers for 1992 and 1993, released by the <span class="companylink">National Archives of Australia</span>, showed the Keating government’s contentious measure initially targeted specific arrivals.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 430 people from Cambodia, Vietnam and China arrived in Australia on nine boats between November 1989 and January 1992.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former immigration minister Gerry Hand told Cabinet colleagues allowing these people into the community would represent a loss of government control, especially if their ­<b>refugee</b> claims were rejected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was also concerned <b>boat</b> arrivals with strong networks could easily disappear. Mr Hand forewarned his colleagues there would be firm backlash by Labor’s traditional base against the proposal — which it battles to this day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The scheme is likely to generate criticism from churches, <span class="companylink"><b>Refugee</b> Council of Australia</span> and other human rights organisations, Legal Aid commissions, certain ethnic communities and the media,” he wrote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a dramatic about-face from a tearful former PM Bob Hawke’s generosity three years earlier to grant 42,000 China students permanent visa in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Documents also show, by 1993, an ill-prepared Immigration Department faced a backlog of <b>refugee</b> applications with the courts also swamped with appeals. In his submission to amend the Migration Act, Mr Hand warned without strict border controls there was grave potential for Australia to become “an easy target for spontaneous mass movement”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He successfully proposed for all <b>boat</b> arrivals between November 1989 and December 1992 to be held in custody for no longer than nine months until claims were ­resolved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The nine-month cap was later removed, creating today’s policy of indefinite detention, and it eventually extended to all “unlawful non-citizens”.Cabinet reduced the annual migration intake in 1992-93 to 80,000, down 31,000 from the previous financial year, and put more focus on English language proficiency.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ntlavl : National Archives of Australia | refaus : Refugee Council of Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Immigration/Asylum | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | china : China | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | bric : BRICS Countries | chinaz : Greater China | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | easiaz : Eastern Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document HERSUN0020170101ed110002n</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ADVTSR0020161228eccs0006r" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>180 years of challenges and triumph</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROXANNE WILSON LIFESTYLE REPORTER </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>731 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 December 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IT WAS 180 years ago today when, after a 158-day voyage, HMS Buffalo sailed into Holdfast Bay carrying 176 passengers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aboard the ship was British Governor John Hindmarsh who, with his secretary George Stevenson, went on to earn December 28, 1836, a place in the South Australian history books.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It became Proclamation Day, when the vice-regal proclamation to establish South Australia as a British province was read by secretary Stevenson at a large gathering under a gum tree – now known as the Old Gum Tree – at Glenelg North, two years after the British parliament passed the South Australia Act in 1834.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The parliament established the province in February 1836, and the first free settlers arrived at Kangaroo Island in July. In August, Colonel William Light explored KI, along with areas around Patawalonga and Port Lincoln as possible sites for capital, and by December confirmed Adelaide as the capital city.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SA Governor Hieu Van Le, who will read the Proclamation of South Australia at a ceremony celebrating its 180th anniversary at Glenelg North this morning, said it was a time to reflect on the early settlers who came as free people, and were “confronted with huge challenges”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There was nothing here actually in terms of economic structure,” he said. “They left behind their homes and endured a long, arduous sea journey, arriving with little food and material possessions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They were forced to live in tents and makeshift accommodation for months. They were confronted with a harsh, natural environment . . . regular hor-rendous bush fires, extreme heat . . . then floods and storms in the raining season.” The Governor said the colony was also approaching bankruptcy “and politically it was not that stable”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In fact, our first two governors were recalled back to the UK prematurely,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“What comes out of this is that, at a very challenging time, our settlers had shown an extraordinary resilience, strength and determination, which ultimately led them to overcome all of this adversity and, with sheer, hard work, a successful, prosperous settlement was built.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“South Australia entered into an exciting period of significant reform.” While Proclamation Day is on December 28, its public holiday falls on the first working day after Christmas Day, which is usually Boxing Day. This year the public holiday was yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since 1857, Proclamation Day has been celebrated every year at the Old Gum Tree. Premier Jay Weatherill will be among those at today’s event.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Together, we’ve created a state with remarkable social cohesion, enviable standard of living and high quality of life,” Mr Weatherill said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We should celebrate just how far we’ve come over the past 180 years and also recommit ourselves to the things that we love most about our state.” City of Holdfast Bay mayor Stephen Patterson said celebrations would go ahead despite forecast rain but any changes would be updated on the council’s website. “The wet weather isn’t dampening our community spirit,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We’re encouraging people to . . . bring a brolly and join us in commemorating this important event in our state’s history.” Governor Hieu Van Le, a <b>refugee</b> who arrived in Adelaide 39 years ago, said reading the Proclamation of South Australia was like a fairytale.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Captain Hindmarsh stood there 180 years ago . . . and now I am a <b>boat</b> person . . . standing there on that same place,” he said. “I pinch myself. That can only happen in Australia.” PAGE 23: MOMENTS THAT MADE US GREAT; PAGE 20: EDITORIAL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HOW WE HAVE GROWN ■ Population: 1.708 million as of June 2016 ■ Median age: 40 ■ Births in 2015: 19,587 ■ Number of dwellings: 763,300 as of September 2016 ■ Total motor vehicles: 1.364 million as of January 2016 ■ Key industries by total factor income as of June 2016 (figures from the <span class="companylink">Australian Bureau of Statistics</span>): 1. Health care and social assistance: $9.221 billion. 2. Financial and insurance services: $6.976 billion. 3. Manufacturing: $6.561 billion. 4. Construction: $6.511 billion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">5. Public administration and safety: $6.131 billion ■ Gross state product: $101.1 billion 1.9 per cent growth in 2015-16 financial year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ Economy: Ranked fifth of the eight states and territories in Commsec’s October State of the States report.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fourth ranked on business investment and housing finance, and fifth ranked in dwelling starts, construction workand economic growth.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Amy Remeikis </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Why my dad, a <b>refugee</b> who sought a home in Australia, is</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">riding the One Nation train</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">COMMENT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amy Remeikis</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pauline Hanson's message is reaching voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It started some time between the second and third courses at Christmas lunch. Fresh from swallowing a mouthful of herring and potato pancake, with another shakily loaded to go, he could no longer hold it in. "How's that Pauline, eh," he said, gleefully defiant. Not a question, but a statement of victory. "I'm glad she's back. She'll stir things up in the state election too. Can't wait." My dad rode the One Nation wave in 1998 and was bitterly disappointed when it crashed not too long after.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The re-emergence of the party, particularly in his home state of Queensland, is thanks to people like him, who never stopped believing in the message: Australia first. It doesn't bother him that he would not have been allowed in to</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pauline Hanson's version of Australia. Displaced by World War II, he fled Lithuania with my oma, leaving behind family, wealth and status and grew up in <b>refugee</b> camps across Europe. Germany.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Italy. Others. Tents and uncertainty were just a way of life. After years of bureaucracy and paperwork, they hopped on a <b>boat</b> and hoped for the best, landing in Melbourne and another displaced persons' camp. They were lucky. They spoke enough English to pick up more quickly, changed their names to better suit Australian palates and began attempting to repay a country that would not truly accept them for decades. As working class as they came, Dad could never vote Labor, having absorbed the "reds under the bed" message too deeply during his political awakening, while the memories of his childhood were still fresh. A conservative voter through</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">thick and thin, he became disillusioned during the early Howard years, when working all his life still had him struggling to put food on the table for his three children. And then along came a Queensland firebrand, who inarticulately articulated his anger and frustration, standing up and talking about the way things used to be and who was to blame for the change. It didn't matter that he spent his life forced to smile through being called "the wog" and "the mad Russian", despite being neither, or refusing to teach his children the language he fought, laughed and loved his mother in, because he was insistent they be "fully Australian", or that he too suffered the isolation, fear and anger directed</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">at "the different", until his accent faded enough to blend. He assimilated. So why couldn't they? He gave up everything. So why wouldn't they? Hanson said the things he felt. Now, almost two decades later, he feels she still does. "She speaks her mind, she's an agitator. What have the others ever given us? "They're all rubbish. At least she's different." He was preparing for a fight. It didn't matter that what "the others" had given him was education and medical care for his children. A state school system that led to affordable tertiary study and produced a journalist, a teacher and (almost) a lawyer. A series of strokes forced him to give up work before he was ready, leaving him with no savings, and delivering panic and frustration along with every new bill. He's nostalgic for an Australia that never existed, but especially never existed for him. And, like millions of others, he is willing to vote for anyone who offers a chance they'll provide it. He voted for Clive Palmer in the Senate at the last election. He would have voted for Donald Trump. He'll vote One Nation every chance he gets. It's not Hanson's policies, but her dialogue that attracts him. The "bloody academics" and the "bastard politicians" don't understand that, he says. "But they will. They'll see." The polls, and the mood, are on his side. And if nothing changes? "At least we tried. At least we tried to shake the system up. What are you doing?" Christmas lunch rolled on. And so does the One Nation steam train, powered by people like my dad, beaten, but still desperate for a chance to fight.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull has again defended government policy on <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b>, after a man died and detainees rioted over his treatment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Sudanese, Faysal Ishak Ahmed, 27, died on Saturday in Brisbane after being flown from Manus ­Island the day before. “It appears Faysal did not receive appropriate treatment for his condition and we now have another death that was … entirely avoidable,” National Justice Project principal solicitor ­George Newhouse said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Faysal had been ill for more than six months, according to a fellow <b>refugee</b>. “Every day Faysal went to medical asking for help. They did not help him,” Behrouz Boochani said in a statement released by the <b>Refugee</b> Action Coalition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Immigration Department said he died of injuries suffered after a fall and seizure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Overnight on Manus, detainees “kicked the officers and staff out”, Mr Boochani posted on <span class="companylink">Facebook</span>. Centre staff returned yesterday.The PM said the government policy had “stopped the people-smuggling and it’s stopped the drownings at sea”, and it was compassionate.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Curtail conflict culture</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MICHAEL GORDON - Michael Gordon is the political editor of The Age </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE NATION - Politics For all the overblown rhetoric, there are tentative signs that the main players get it, too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Report cards don't get much worse than the one delivered on the state of national politics this week, and it wasn't just that every measure of the health of the system was at, or near, record lows.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was the trajectory; the fact that the trend towards an alienated, angry, distrustful, unattached and disengaged electorate is accelerating at such a pace that it will prove very hard to arrest, let alone reverse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps the biggest surprise in the 12th Australian Election Study, conducted by the <span class="companylink">Australian National University</span>, was the pessimism it revealed about the government's ability to influence the economic outcomes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just 7 per cent of Australians thought that the government had a good effect on the country's economy over the previous year. Just 13 per cent thought it would have a good effect in 2017.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is only when one reflects on 2016 and the bold proclamations of the key players that the pessimism is not so surprising after all.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Only last month, Malcolm Turnbull declared that the passage of legislation to restore a cop on the beat to the construction industry would deliver a "vital reform which will benefit every Australian family".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The resurrection of the Australian Building and Construction Commission may improve law and order on building sites, but voters know it won't yield a significant national economic dividend, so why suggest it would?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During the marathon election campaign, business tax cuts were promised as the centrepiece of the Coalition's plan for "jobs and growth". Yet Treasury's modelling suggested a very modest boost to national income a long, long way down the track if the cuts were implemented.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, all the talk from Turnbull and Scott Morrison about jobs and growth has done nothing to arrest the decline in new business investment that was the main reason the economy went backwards in the September quarter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But hyperbole isn't the most worrying feature of a broken system. Rather, it's a symptom of something more corrosive: an addiction to conflict that too often asserts itself in the resort to wedge politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is where policies are advanced primarily because they will be opposed by the other side, in the expectation that this opposition can then be exploited for political gain.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Witness, for instance, the lifetime ban on those who attempted to come to Australia by <b>boat</b> ever even visiting this country, a policy rightly condemned by the <span class="companylink">United Nations <b>refugee</b> agency</span> and rejected by Labor, the Greens and others.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It isn't only the electorate that has had enough. Increasing numbers of politicians accept that the obsession with conflict is not sustainable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One example was the response to Liberal MP Julian Leeser's call in his powerful first speech to rebuild caring communities by fostering innovative solutions to address suicide prevention, depression and mental health. Another was when Turnbull and Shorten linked arms to back the No More campaign against family and community violence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The idea of a less hateful political culture isn't a fantasy, because we've enjoyed it before," wrote Labor's Clare O'Neil, in a response to George Megalogenis' most recent Quarterly Essay.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For all the overblown rhetoric, there are tentative signs that main players get it too. Back in September, Morrison commissioned the Productivity Commission to undertake five-yearly inquiries into Australia's productivity performance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What was remarkable, according to the commission's chair Peter Harris, was Morrison wanted to discuss the design of the brief before he handed it over "with the core aim of ensuring that this inquiry allowed us the maximum opportunity to gather new ideas". This, Harris believed, had not happened before.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Imagine if the same approach was adopted to find solutions to other intractable problems like budget repair, lifting education standards and tackling climate change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Imagine if the government chose not to declare war on renewable energy, acknowledged that Australia is not on track to meet its Paris commitment and vowed to explore all options to reduce emissions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It isn't only in policy debates trust has been lost and can be regained if remedial action is taken. How about meaningful changes to laws on political donations, making party structures more democratic and getting rid of perks like free business-class travel for retired MPs?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Before he became Labor leader, Bill Shorten said he wanted to reform the ALP to increase membership, get the best candidates into Parliament and create a modern, outward-looking party that reflected the country he wanted to build.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then, in October, he was seen to support his friend and Right factional ally, Kimberley Kitching, when she was chosen by an internal party committee as Stephen Conroy's Senate replacement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most plausible explanation, insiders assert, is that he felt his need to have a rusted-on supporter in the Parliament was greater than the opportunity to demonstrate his commitment to reform - the wrong call.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One threat to the health of democracy that cannot be traced to the inaction of the politicians is the rise of social media and what former ALP president Barry Jones has dubbed the withdrawal from knowledge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Donald J. Trump's victory marks the beginning of a new political era - post-truth, post-evidence, post-courage - which is particularly disturbing considering that we are part of the most highly educated (on paper, anyway) cohort in our history," Jones asserts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Leeser expressed the same concern in a recent speech, when he observed that social media had made it possible for people to live in an echo chamber, where reason is overtaken by emotion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is no easy answer when it comes to combating those who appeal to fear, ignorance and prejudice, other than to call them out and work harder and more creatively at communicating facts and ideas and arguments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One reason for optimism is that next year there will be no federal election and no reason for the perpetual campaign. The opportunity for a kinder and gentler, but more effective and courageous, polity beckons.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Will the political class be too timid, too short-sighted and too self-absorbed to grasp it? I hope not.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael Gordon is the political editor of The Age. </p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians' satisfaction with democracy has collapsed to its lowest level since the Whitlam dismissal, according to a major study that shows the country in a distrustful mood.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">Australian National University</span> survey portrays a populace that is increasingly disdainful of government, lacks allegiance to the major political parties and has little trust in politicians' abilities to improve the country's economy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Researchers behind the 12th Australian Election Study said the findings were a "wake-up call" that the conditions that led to recent political upheavals in Britain and the US also exist here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Public satisfaction with our democratic processes and public trust in the politicians we elect are at some of the lowest levels ever recorded," lead researcher Ian McAllister said. "You are seeing the stirrings among the public of what has has happened in the United States with the election of [Donald] Trump, Brexit in Britain and in Italy. This is the start of something that has happened overseas and it's coming here."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The study, based on interviews with 2818 people in the three months following the July poll, has been conducted after each election since 1987, with some issues tracked since 1969.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Satisfaction with democracy Australians have traditionally been among the most satisfied people in the world with their democracy, but that is no longer the case. The proportion of Australians dissatisfied with democracy has soared to 40 per cent, up from 28 per cent after the 2013 election and just 14 per cent after the 2007 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politicians out of touch</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian politicians are increasingly viewed as out of touch with the concerns of voters. The survey found 52 per cent of respondents believe politicians don't know what ordinary people think.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trust in government</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just 26 per cent of respondents said people in government can be trusted, the lowest level since this question was first asked in 1969. There has been a gradual decline in trust in government since 2007, when 43 per cent of people said they trusted the people running the country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Who the government is run for</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just 12 per cent of Australians believe government is run for all the people, the equal-lowest on record. A striking 56 per cent of people think government is run for a few big interests, a dramatic increase on 38 per cent in 2007.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Interest in the election</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The eight-week double-dissolution election campaign failed to resonate with voters, with a mere 30 per cent saying they had a good deal of interest in the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Watched the leaders' debate</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lack of interest in the election led Australians to turn off their TVs during the campaign. About 21 per cent of respondents said they watched the leaders' debates - the lowest on record.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Voting volatility</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians are increasingly willing to change their vote from one election to the next. Just 40 per cent of respondents said they always voted for the same party, down from 63 per cent in 1987.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Feelings about political parties</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians voters have never shown such dislike of the major political parties. On a scale of zero to 10 (zero being high dislike and 10 highly liked) respondents scored Labor a 4.9, the Liberal Party 4.8 and the Nationals 4.4.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Effect on economy</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a pessimistic view about government's ability to influence the economy. The survey found 67 per cent of respondents think the government will have made no effect on the economy in a year's time, the highest on record.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration and refugees</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although <b>asylum</b> seeker boats have stopped arriving, the issue has spiked to its highest level of importance to voters since the Tampa election of 2001. But other evidence shows attitudes to migrants are softening, with 40 per cent believing the number of migrants has gone too far, down from 52 per cent in 2010. More Australians support <b>boat</b> turnbacks than not, but support is at its lowest level on record.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>New young nation overboard</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peter Jones </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter Jones explains the enormous challenges facing Eritrea</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ONE of Africa’s newest, smallest countries, most of us would be hard put to find it on a map.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For many Tasmanians it only came to our notice in October when an Incat vessel, HSV-2 SWIFT that was built in 1993, was almost sunk by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea in transit from Yemen to Eritrea while flying the flag of the United Arab Emirates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Older readers may remember Fred Hollows who, until his untimely death in 1993, did pioneering eye surgery in Eritrea, work that has continued to this day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Human rights activists regard it as having one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. Many young men now trying to escape to Europe by <b>boat</b> across the Mediterranean are Eritreans, despite so many drowning or dying in the desert before they even reach the coast. Others have made it up the Red Sea to Israel where Eritrean refugees have become a political issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many Israelis fear their presence threatens the nature of the Jewish state while others, remembering their own <b>refugee</b> history, feel they should offer them <b>asylum</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eritrea is much smaller than Tasmania, but has a population of about 5 million, a mix of Christians and Muslims, speaking a range of nine languages. Its Red Sea coast must rank as one of the hottest places in the world to live with an average annual temperature around 30C, often rising to over 40C, but further inland where the road rises to the highlands, it is much cooler.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eritrea was created by Italy in the late 19th century, following a growing maritime interest in the Red Sea after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. An Italian steamship company declared an interest in the coast around Assab and this gradually extended into the Ethiopian highlands, where they built Eritrea’s capital, Asmara, at 2300m.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ethiopia was then ruled by a Coptic Christian Emperor, which is why it initially escaped colonisation. In 1896, Italy decided to try to invade it from Eritrea, but they were humiliated in a massive defeat at Adowa. It was this humiliation that Mussolini sought to avenge with his invasion of Ethiopia (also known as Abyssinia) in 1935 when modern weapons gave his army and air force overwhelming firepower.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After Britain defeated Italy in World War II, they occupied Eritrea while returning Ethiopia to the exiled Emperor Haile Selassie. It was declared a UN Trust Territory in 1949, and Britain as the supervising power agreed to return it to Ethiopia in 1952. After initially giving it autonomous status, Ethiopia proclaimed Eritrea a part of that country a decade later. This was primarily to give it access to the sea and, because the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, after much discussion had been selected as the capital of the Organisation of African Unity (now the <span class="companylink">African Union</span>) in 1963, this carried weight at the United Nations. Ethiopia was also an ally of the US, which was interested in securing a naval base in the Red Sea at Massawa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many Eritreans were opposed to this decision, and the Ethiopian Liberation Front was created in 1960, leading to 32 years’ armed struggle, complicated by changing Cold War alliances. The US supported Ethiopia until a military coup in 1974 overthrew the Emperor and a Marxist regime under Mengistu Haile Mariam replaced him. In a neighbouring armed conflict involving Ethiopia, Somalia had been supported by the Soviet Union, but now Somalia too switched allies with the US hoping to secure a new naval base at Berbera on the Red Sea coast.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The liberation movement had split with the Eritrean Popular Liberation Front emerging as the main opposition force, mobilising men and women to fight against the occupying Ethiopian army. Finally, the conflict was resolved after Ethiopia agreed to a referendum when Eritreans voted almost unanimously for independence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Relations between the two countries remain tense with armed conflict over their desert border although at one stage, the <span class="companylink">UN</span> did try to establish a security zone to prevent further outbreaks of hostilities. The leader of the EPLF, Isaias Afewerki, had originally joined the ELF but co-founded the EPLF when the split occurred in 1970. He was then elected president of the new country in 1993. Over the years he has been in power, he has turned Eritrea into one party state and a <span class="companylink">UN</span> appointed Commission of Inquiry reported that “crimes against humanity have been committed in a widespread and systematic manner”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A subsequent special <span class="companylink">UN</span> rapporteur was denied entry to the country, but the Government says that reports of human rights abuses are false. Other Eritreans who have returned to the country say that everything is fine. Some exiles, known as summer butterflies, come back for holidays while others come back to retire.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Apart from ongoing conflict with Ethiopia, Eritrea was also involved in armed hostilities with Yemen over islands in the Red Sea in 1995. Today Eritrea is supporting the exiled government in Yemen, which is why the Incat vessel was fired on by rebels, now controlling the Yemeni capital, Sana’a. The vessel itself was operated by the navy of the United Arab Emirates, part of the Sunni Muslim alliance against the Shi’a Houthi rebels. The Foreign Minister stated that the UAE was using “logistical facilities at the port and airport” in the southern coastal city of Assab.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many of those trying to escape to Europe across the Mediterranean are Eritreans, 25 per cent of the total last year, although other sources say that many of them are Ethiopian or Sudanese and not Eritrean. The main reason for risking the desert route from Eritrea across North Africa is the indefinite military conscription. This was introduced in 1995 and everyone under 50 is enlisted for an indefinite period and made to work on construction projects unless they can get exemption. People who have escaped tell stories of abuse and the brutality of camp commanders where they are held. Eritreans cannot leave the country without government permission so thousands who do escape, do so illegally. The Government argues that conscription is necessary while Eritrea faces a security threat from Ethiopia. No elections are held, no dissent is allowed and there is no independent media.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Others leave because they feel they have no future in Eritrea, they cannot get a university education or because of the state of the economy. Some escape because from 2002, the Government has only allowed membership of six officially registered faiths so if you are a Jehovah’s Witness or Pentecostal, then that is illegal too and many of their members are in jail.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The numbers seeking to cross the Mediterranean are still increasing, up to 3771 last year and already over 4000 this year. Deaths at sea like the 240 who drowned last month in four separate incidents, are often of Eritreans. These numbers make those refugees trying to get to Australia by <b>boat</b> pale into insignificance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However like us, Europe is trying to close its doors, not such an easy task when it is far easier to cross than the route across the Indian Ocean to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Navies from countries such as Britain have been destroying the Libyan people smugglers’ boats so instead they pack their customers in inflatable rubber boats that can be operated by refugees, but capsize at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Peter D. Jones lives in Hobart and teaches Modern World History and Religion. He has a Graduate Diploma and PhD in Islamic Studies from the <span class="companylink">University of New England</span> and has travelled the Middle East. His family lived in Africa and he visited Eritrea in the civil war, later working with Fred Hollows on a support committee for Eritrean independence in Canberra. He has an adopted Eritrean daughter.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Mark Dapin. </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lunch with Elaine Pearson
</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After years away this woman now fights for others from Australia, writes Mark Dapin. </p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Human Rights Watch Australia director Elaine Pearson left Australia in 1999, aged 23, and thought she would never come back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She travelled the world, working to stop human trafficking in Thailand, Columbia, Ukraine, Nigeria and Nepal. She lived in Bangkok, London and New York, married a New Zealander, consulted for the <span class="companylink">UN</span> - then, three years ago, returned home after all.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I'm sharing lunch with Pearson at House Thai, where heavy timber tables command a sequence of echoey, convivial spaces above the mildly desperate Triple Ace Bar in Surry Hills. Pearson seems poised but a little apprehensive to talk about herself, and she drinks a Singha beer - "to help me open up", she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She tells me her father and his first wife came to Australia as 10-pound Poms. They had four children together, but the mother died of a brain aneurysm. Her father travelled regularly as a flight scheduler for <span class="companylink">Qantas</span> . He took his eldest daughter, Jill, on a visit to Singapore, where she met a local girl who became her pen-friend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"When Jill went on another trip to Singapore with my dad, she wanted to meet up with her pen-friend," says Pearson, "and her pen-friend brought her older sister - which is my mum."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pearson's mother is a Singaporean-Chinese nurse, who married her father and came to join him and the family in their home in Blacktown.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I think, for her, in the 1970s in Blacktown, already with kids who were not her own children, it was pretty tough," says Pearson. "Blacktown back then certainly wasn't multicultural."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pearson was born in Blacktown in 1975 and moved to Perth with her parents in 1981. "Growing up in Perth," she says, "there was always low-level racism. When you don't fit into either group - when you're a mixed kid - you bear the brunt of that. So I did get a bit of, 'Go back to where you came from ... your mother was a mail-order bride'. But it wasn't anything particularly malicious.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"My mum is a fantastic cook," she says, "and she used to cook a lot of Singaporean-Chinese food. But when you're little, you want to be like the other kids in Perth, so you start complaining: 'Mum, why do we have to eat rice every day? I want to eat potato. I want to eat chops.' And we'd be having satay sauce or sweet and sour fish, which now I love and think, 'What an ungrateful little child'."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pearson went to the private All Saints' College and is noncommittal about the experience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It was all right," she says. "I often felt like I didn't want to be in Perth, I wanted to be somewhere else."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She planned to study arts, but ended up on an arts/law course at <span class="companylink">Murdoch University</span> . "My mum may be a bit of a tiger mum," she says, "and she certainly encouraged me to do law. But I couldn't see myself as a lawyer working on the Terrace in Perth for some mining company."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She became more politically aware towards the end of her degree. One of the first demonstrations she attended was a protest against Pauline Hanson's visit to Perth in 1997. "At that time, I took it very personally," she says. "Because now her scapegoat is Muslims, but at that time it was Asians."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once she graduated, Pearson became an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development, and was given a placement with the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women in Bangkok. She flew out to Thailand and, she says, "I actually didn't think I'd come back to Australia. I thought that was it."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Bangkok, she says she developed a fierce love of Thai food, and at House she orders for both of us - sticky rice with sundried beef; catfish salad; whitebait salad; and the King of All Salads, chicken larb.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Thailand, she says, "I learned very quickly, from talking to a lot of sex workers, that it wasn't that everyone who enters the sex industry in Thailand is forced. They have choices, and maybe it's the least bad option of several options. The women who are working in the tourist spots, they're actually not the ones who really need help, it's the women who are trafficked and forced into it - they're working in closed brothels, far away from the tourist trade. A lot of women entered the sex industry somewhat voluntarily, but it became trafficking when they realised that they didn't have the freedom to leave, or they moved to a different country and their passport was taken away from them and they're told, 'You have to pay back your debt and you don't have any choice: you can't refuse clients'."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After two years in Thailand, she moved to London to work for <span class="companylink">Anti-Slavery International</span> . She visited some of the source countries of modern-day slaves, such as Columbia, Ukraine and Nigeria, and destination countries such as Italy and the Netherlands. She joined the International Labour Office, worked briefly for Oxfam in Nepal, then moved to Hong Kong and consulted for the <span class="companylink">UN</span> on protection for domestic workers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2005, when Pearson turned 30, she decided to upend her life. She broke up with her boyfriend and moved back to Bangkok, where she helped with various human-rights projects.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At House, we eat Thai food while talking about Thailand. The complicated catfish salad is one of Pearson's favourite dishes - and it's one of mine too, now - but I wouldn't bother with the sundried beef again (which is exactly what I said the last time I ordered it).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pearson tells me she met Cameron Sinclair on a whitewater rafting trip in northern Thailand. He worked in communications at the New Zealand Embassy in Bangkok, but quit and moved with her to the US when she was offered the position of Asia deputy director at Human Rights Watch in New York. They married at City Hall in 2008. "Part of the reason we got married so early was to sort out his work visa," she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But as the years passed, Pearson's father developed Alzheimer's disease and Pearson began to feel guilty about having spent so long overseas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When <span class="companylink">Human Rights Watch</span> opened Australian offices in 2013 she was ready to come home - although to Sydney, rather than Perth. She and Sinclair live in Elizabeth Bay.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Human Rights Watch Australia was established largely to influence Australian foreign policy towards rights-abusing nations - work which, says Pearson, inspires only "limited interest" in the Australian public - but its foundation happened to coincide with a general election and the then-prime minister Kevin Rudd 's announcement of offshore processing</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">for refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pearson had not expected to be involved in <b>refugee</b> work but, she says, it became the No.1 human rights issue in the country. "It surprised me when I first moved back here," she says, "after being away from Australia for a long period of time, just how much hysteria there was about <b>boat</b> people when the numbers were high for Australia but they're not really that high."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's biggest human rights failure grew out of a response to a challenge that, by global standards, was barely a problem at all. Sometimes you need to have lived away from the place where you were born to see things at home for what they really are.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon </td></tr>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton erred on Afghans' rights</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael Gordon</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Federal Court has found Peter Dutton unreasonably delayed making decisions on applications for citizenship by refugees in a landmark ruling that has implications for thousands of would-be citizens. The court has also ruled that Mr Dutton erred in rejecting the applications for citizenship of the two Afghan refugees several weeks after they commenced legal proceedings. The pair had been permanent residents of Australia for more than four years. Justice Bromberg of the Federal Court ruled that the decisions to reject their applications were invalid and "at law no decisions at all" and dismissed Mr Dutton's submission that he deny the two men relief. The case provides hope for more than 10,000 refugees, most of whom came to Australia by <b>boat</b> before the decision by the Rudd government that no one processed offshore would ever be settled in Australia. While it will invite more legal action if there is no move to hasten decision-making for the refugees, the decision will also raise concerns that Mr Dutton could proceed with legislation to make it harder for refugees to obtain citizenship. Mr Dutton's office declined to comment on the Federal Court ruling, saying only that his department was considering the judgment. The <span class="companylink"><b>Refugee</b> Council of Australia</span>, who brought on the action with pro bono lawyers, says the refugees have had their citizenship applications "put in the bottom drawer" by Mr Dutton's department.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lawyers for the refugees argued that these delays have been unreasonable and appeared to be discriminatory. The court was told the excessive delays had caused significant anxiety for the many thousands affected, as they have been unable to reunite with their families while their citizenship remains in limbo. "For people who are recognised as refugees, it is extremely difficult to bring family members to safety in Australia without citizenship," said the <b>Refugee</b> Council's Tim O'Connor. "As such, delays in processing citizenship applications have left many in prolonged situations of danger and persecution, despite having a parent, sibling or other close relative who has been recognised as a <b>refugee</b> in Australia." <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> has spoken to a number of those who applications have been delayed for periods of one and two years. "It is ruin (sic) my life - and the life of my family," said Karim Sadaqat, who came by <b>boat</b> in 2010 and whose wife and two children remain in Afghanistan. "They are there and I am here," said Mr Sadaqat, who has been waiting to undertake the citizenship test since August last year. Another <b>refugee</b>, who asked that his name not be used, said he passed the citizenship test in March 2015, but had not been contacted regarding any booking in for a citizenship ceremony. "I need to receive citizenship for my family. My daughter is in Pakistan, and is in need of urgent medical attention. No one else can take her," he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">School probed on Year 3 <b>asylum</b> seeker petition to politicians</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A SYDNEY public school has transformed its nine-year-old students into political activists, having them launch a petition against child refugees in detention.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Helensburgh Public School is being investigated by the <span class="companylink">NSW Department of Education</span> after the petition from its Year 3 students, who said they were “heartbroken” after learning about “trapped” children “with no certainly and little hope” living in “detention-like conditions”, was sent to politicians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The department confirmed it was investigating possible involvement of staff in the matter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The southern Sydney school’s principal Chris Connor (pictured) is a former Labor deputy mayor and current councillor at <span class="companylink">Wollongong Council</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Printed on school letterhead, Helensburgh’s Year 3 class has sent a letter to pollies describing the Turnbull government’s border protection policies as “cruel”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The letter is signed “Friends of Children in Detention” despite the fact there are no remaining children in offshore detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There are more than one hundred children on Nauru, who are living in detention-like conditions, trapped, with no hope for a better life,” the letter from Class 3L states.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There are more than 300 children in community detention in Australia, with no certainty and little hope.” Accompanying the letter were handwritten messages and drawings of children behind bars from the Class 3L.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Messages read: “Don’t put them in Jail”, “Don’t’ put them in so much harm,” “Your dung politicians” and “Pleas help them”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Department of Education slammed the public school’s political petition as “totally inappropriate”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Department is investigating the involvement of staff in this matter and will take appropriate disciplinary action,” a spokesman said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Last week all NSW public schools were reminded that they are neutral grounds for objective study and are not arenas for promoting political views or ideologies.” Liberal Democratic senator David Leyonhjelm was one politician disturbed to receive the letter this week and yesterday wrote to NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli demanding action.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“What we’ve seen is a decline in education standards. What’s obvious is teachers are being diverted from teaching useful things to politics,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I”m sympathetic to immigration but I don’t accept arguments about children in detention and behind bars, which are the pictures they were drawing.” The letter calls on all refugees to be processed and resettled. “When this is done, the effects of our government’s’ cruel policies on these children can start to be addressed,” it states.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Year 3 parent Guy Reynolds, whose two children were not in the petitioning class, said he was “really annoyed” political ideology had been pushed on to children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“No Year 3 child is ever going to say ‘let’s start a petition and send it to Senator Leyonhjelm’,” he said. “That has been put into their heads. I don’t want kids being used as political pawns by any party.” He said he wanted teachers to focus on education.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton agreed that “children shouldn’t be used as political pawns”.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>WARREN MUNDINE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>840 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 December 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Middle ground is where we belong</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Donald Trump’s victory demonstrates the media and commentariat are disconnected from voters. Almost without exception they failed to ­anticipate the presidential election outcome — and had little influence on it. Their message that Trump was unfit for presidency was largely ­ignored.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia’s political media and commentariat are also out of touch. Listening to them you’d think Australians are preoccupied with gay marriage, offshore detention, carbon emissions and identity politics. Most are preoccupied with their families, their homes, their jobs, the monthly bills and their kids’ education and job prospects.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They care about the economy and national debt. They want to live in a safe society where Australia’s way of life is valued and respected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There’s a growing disconnect between the views ­expressed by the media and commentariat and those of many Australians, with common sense often dismissed as extreme, ill-informed, even bigoted. Here are some examples.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our biggest education challenge is performance declining against global benchmarks. Demanding more education funding as the solution is misconceived. It’s been happening despite substantial education funding increases. Something’s wrong. Australian schools should be the best in the world, not 28th behind Kazakhstan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, the education issue dominating political news has been the Safe Schools controversy. It’s understandable why parents are concerned. Some content in Safe Schools and other school programs, frankly, beggars belief.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Teachers shouldn’t be schooling children in gender fluidity or asking them to imagine or role-play different sexual orientations, or teaching them about exotic sex acts, or criticising “heteronormativity”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Governments should shut this nonsense down and focus on improving academic performance. That’s not homophobic. It’s common sense.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The world has more than 60 million refugees, about three times Australia’s population, with many others desperate to move to Western nations for economic opportunity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Allowing people to stay in Australia if they make it to our shores Hunger-Games style (or acquiescing when they do) is cruel and irresponsible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era more than 1000 people drowned and detainee numbers skyrocketed from less than 500 to more than 10,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refusing to settle <b>asylum</b> seekers in Australia who ­arrive by <b>boat</b> is tough and unrelenting but it saves lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nations must uphold their borders to maintain their sovereignty, potentially their survival. My ancestors learnt this the hard way. Border security isn’t racist or an embarrassment. It’s common sense.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians have a strong record of embracing immigrants in their communities and in their families, and most immigrants embrace Australia and our way of life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But at the moment Australians are seeing something we’ve rarely seen before. A small minority of Muslim migrants and/or their descendants reject our way of life and instead want us to embrace aspects of theirs which go against our laws, customs and culture — women covering their faces, refusing to stand in court, sharia law regulating divorces, polygamy and even forced child “marriages”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A smaller minority support terrorist causes and are plotting to kill us. That’s not ­acceptable to most Australians, including most Arab and Muslim Australians. Yes, it’s only a tiny minority but their attitudes and actions are divisive and dangerous and must be ­acknowledged and confronted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Every Australian should treat others with decency, follow our laws and institutions. This isn’t racist or Islamophobic. It’s common sense.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">People of all societies through the ages were expected to contribute. Families and charities supported those who couldn’t. Modern Western governments introduced welfare to help people in hard times get back on their feet, not provide an optional life pathway. Governments shouldn’t pay people who refuse to work. If there are jobs picking fruit, selling hamburgers, labouring or cleaning, unemployed people should do them or lose benefits.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I hope the federal government’s welfare reform plans go beyond tough talk and become tough action. Making people take available work isn’t cruel. Sit-down money is cruel. Welfare reform is common sense.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politicians who articulate these kinds of opinions are often branded heartless and bigoted by the progressive/Left, cheered on by prominent members of the political media and commentariat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s rare to hear centrist politicians speak as bluntly as I just have. Centrist Labor tends to pander to the progressive/Left. Centrist Liberals tiptoe. In doing so they leave a vacuum for extremists and populists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump, Brexit and One Nation’s resurgence deliver two key lessons. First, politicians who speak directly to voters about what voters care about can prevail, regardless of the media and commentariat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Second, if centrists are unwilling or afraid to embrace commonsense views, voters will turn to extremists and populists, however offensive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first centrist politician who embraces common sense with plain-speaking, ignoring the political class and dealing honestly and firmly with issues Australians care about, will dominate the ballot box.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Warren Mundine is chair of the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council and a former ALP national president.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>A wound that will not heal</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Melanie Petrinec </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>911 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 December 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>60</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An inquest into the death of <b>asylum</b> seeker Hamid Khazaei in detention has laid bare the shortcomings of Australia’s Border Protection unit, writes Melanie Petrinec</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HAMID Khazaei’s death exposed a deadly tangle of bureaucratic red tape and led to groundswell of anti-<b>refugee</b> rhetoric.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 24-year-old Iranian <b>asylum</b> seeker went to the medical clinic at the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre on August 23, 2014, complaining of chills, fever and a runny nose.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was brain dead in a Brisbane hospital just 10 days later and died of blood poisoning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An inquest tasked with examining the circumstances surrounding Khazaei’s death is underway in Brisbane and, unsurprisingly, politics has been raised among the whys and wherefores of the tragedy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But stunning evidence has also emerged about the length of time it took for Khazaei to be transferred from Manus Island to a hospital in Port Moresby, before he was eventually flown to Brisbane as his health took a dramatic turn for the worse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bureaucrats in Canberra were notified of Khazaei’s worsening condition as a result of a leg infection about midday on August 25, and a request was made for him to be on the next available commercial flight to PNG.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was a flight leaving at 5.30pm that day, and former Manus Island transfer officer for the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Jessica Costello, told the court there was a “sense of urgency” with the aim to get him on that plane. Her request was sent to her superior, Caroline Gow, who in turn phoned former director of detention health operations, Amanda Little.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both Gow and Little told the court they were working on the understanding Khazaei was to be on the 11am flight the next day, and indeed a turnaround of under six hours to get him on the 5.30pm flight was almost impossible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Little said she received the transfer request in her inbox about 1.15pm on the 25th, but it took her more than four hours to read it, so it wasn’t actioned until after the 5.30pm flight had left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I don’t recollect that I checked my emails,” she said. “I do remember I had several meetings that afternoon.” Little claimed when she did read the form, it “did not paint a picture of urgency”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It had been filled out by doctors who said they had “exhausted all antibiotic treatment available on Manus Island” to treat Khazaei and “there are risks of the infection spreading, leading to sepsis – life-threatening widespread systemic infection”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After Little asked “clarifying questions”, the request was escalated to her two bosses – assistant secretary Paul Windsor and first assistant secretary John Cahill.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The approval came by 8.30am on August 26 – almost 24 hours after the request – but by then Khazaei was too ill for a commercial flight and an air ambulance took him to the Pacific International Hospital in Port Moresby.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Medics involved in Mr Khazaei’s evacuation have said Brisbane would have been a better option in the first instance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Stewart Condon, who previously worked for International SOS, the company contracted by the Australian Government to evacuate patients from Manus Island, said discussions about where to transport <b>asylum</b> seekers could be “challenging”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said there was “political pressure in the department”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But while questions have been raised about whether the Government had a policy not to treat <b>asylum</b> seekers in Australia, Cahill – who was responsible for giving the final tick of approval for transfers – says that wasn’t the case.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Government had made clear what its policy position was and that position was that people that had been relocated to regional processing centres would not be settled in Australia,” he told the inquest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Now that didn’t remove the responsibilities that Australia took to make sure that persons who actually needed medical treatment that was not available locally ... had access to medical treatment in Australia.” He later revealed there were in fact no written policies and procedures in place at all for medical transfers of <b>asylum</b> seekers from Manus Island or Nauru at that time, despite offshore processing at both centres resuming under former prime minister Kevin Rudd two years earlier.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This was in an environment ... where we were emerging from a very high-tempo activity with large numbers of <b>boat</b> arrivals and people needing to be managed both in onshore detention and regional processing centres,” he told the inquest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So there were high levels of activity that were being undertaken over an extended period of time, and as that pressure eased the day-to-day tempo, we were in a position to look to prepare those procedures and policy documents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The policies existed and were understood, but they weren’t necessarily written down.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Doctors for Refugees have been watching the case closely as the evidence has unfolded over the past two weeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The organisation’s president, Dr Barri Phatarfod, has claimed Khazaei’s death was “entirely preventable”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The unacceptable delay in evacuating this man to a facility where he could be appropriately treated, no doubt was a factor in his death,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Government is playing with people’s lives to score political points. “How many more needless deaths will occur before this policy of offshore detention is seen as the abject failure that it is?” The inquest resumes in February.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">melanie.petrinec@news.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>McKim hits Europe to talk <b>asylum</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NICK CLARK Federal Political Editor </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TASMANIAN senator Nick McKim is travelling to Europe to raise his concerns about Australia’s immigration policies, saying they are inhumane and have failed to work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator McKim, who took over as Greens immigration spokesman from Sarah Hanson-Young after the election, will tell European MPs that the Australian system of <b>boat</b> turnbacks and mandatory detention should not be adopted.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The self-funded trip takes in London, Strasbourg, Copenhagen and Geneva and follows trips by former prime minister Tony Abbott, who urged Europe to adopt <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator McKim said European countries’ consideration of the Australian system was a symptom of an international surge to the political right and a rise in racism and xenophobia in Western democracies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The concern that I’ve got is that Australia’s immigration policies are starting to spread around the world but the truth is they are utterly inhumane, horrendously expensive and not working,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said that <b>boat</b> turnbacks had not worked in deterring <b>asylum</b> seekers because 29 boats had been turned back since 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The simple fact is people are still setting out for Australia and what we are doing is turning them back into danger and potentially death,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We know that the overwhelming majority are genuine refugees.” His approach is in direct contrast to that taken by Mr Abbott, who in September urged a meeting of European MPs in Prague to solve the border issue or face an “existential challenge”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In my judgment it was the prospect of millions of new ­Europeans from the Middle East and Africa streaming into Britain that pushed the Brexit vote over the line,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Britons aren’t against Europe or immigration but they voted against losing control.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Uncontrolled immigration didn’t cause Brexit but it did prompt Britons to take back their sovereignty.” Mr Abbott called on centre-right parties and governments to find conviction in arguing that controlling the borders to stop deaths at sea was the “moral thing to do”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“You have to match the conviction of those demanding entry with the greater conviction that you have a right to say no,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr McKim will meet and speak to members of parliament and non-government organisations.He also said rising sea levels resulting from climate change were likely to mean an increase in <b>refugee</b> numbers.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>ONE IN, ALL IN</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AQUINAS COLLEGE CLASS OF 2016 </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>698 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 December 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Before the graduating class of Aquinas College ran into the ocean in uniform three weeks ago, they wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton about the treatment of refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DEAR Mr Turnbull and Mr Dutton, We, the undersigned, are representatives of the graduating class of 2016 from Aquinas College, Ashmore, Queensland. We write this letter on the last day of our secondary education. It is a day where we celebrate how far we have come and how far we will go in achieving our hopes, dreams and aspirations.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of those hopes is that we can be proud of how we treat those who are vulnerable and come to us seeking safety, treating them fairly and allowing them to integrate into our community, rather than turning them away, causing them harm and denying their basic rights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As a cohort we wish to express our grave concerns regarding offshore and long- term detention of people seeking <b>asylum</b>, deportations to danger and the denial of basic rights including family reunification and permanent protection. These policies do not represent the views of young people like us who want to inherit a thriving, welcoming country where we treat others the way we want to be treated. We are the generation that will inherit the damage done to our national character, reputation and most significantly the harm done to the mental health and wellbeing of those who have sought our help and protection. As we consider our own futures, we are conscious that there are thousands of people who have been waiting years to know their fate and if they will ever be free to live their lives in peace.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While senior students around Australia have been counting down the days until we have the freedom to begin our adult lives, we cannot imagine what it must be like for those who continue to live in uncertainty, and for those who have been living in the community, knowing they could be taken away at any time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As young Australians we know we are the masters of our own destiny. There are so many opportunities in our lives and we call ourselves the lucky country, but we don’t seem to be willing to share that prosperity. While we embark on our journeys to becoming lawyers, teachers, journalists, tradespeople, actors, enter public service or even become politicians, we are appalled that young people seeking refuge are denied these same opportunities and rights, never allowed to flourish and thrive when we could choose to make it happen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unless we are indigenous, we choose to forget that so many of us have a shared heritage as <b>boat</b> people who came seeking to rebuild their lives in peace. People who have been refugees have so much to offer, their strength and courage to build a new life means they truly appreciate freedom and opportunity. We are a country of immigrants and the sacrifice of our families made the lives we lead possible; these people are not a problem, they are an asset. Please, put yourself in their shoes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We acknowledge the Coalition’s plan to finally process refugees and move people from Manus and Nauru to a third country, such as the United States. However, we remain seriously concerned that the dignity of these people is not respected or acknowledged by treating them as political chess pieces and in fact becoming people smugglers ourselves. We implore you to ensure that there is a plan which will mean safety for all and allow those living in our community to stay and build their lives here, especially to allow families to be together and ensure no one is left behind. We cannot allow a single person to be subjected to such treatment in the future. We must do what we know is morally right.We remain steadfast in our desire to share a bright future with “those who’ve come across the seas” because “we’ve boundless plains to share”. Young people have the courage to welcome the stranger and we ask you show leadership in doing the same.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Immigration/Asylum | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | queensl : Queensland | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document GCBULL0020161205ecc60001z</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020161204ecc50005p" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Downer says no more politics after London post ends</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jacquelin Magnay LONDON </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>397 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 December 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Alexander Downer has rejected suggestions he will return to politics once his three-year term as Australia’s London high commissioner ends next year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amid speculation that Attorney-General George Brandis will be handed the London post, possibly as early as the new year, Mr Downer said he — and his successor — had no idea of the timing.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It has nothing to do with me. Somebody will replace me as this is not a permanent job,’’ he told The Australian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">South Australian-born Mr Downer, 65, the nation’s longest-serving foreign minister, said people had speculated for three years that he would return to politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The next South Australian election will be held on March 17, 2018, when the Liberals will try to oust Labor after 16 years in power, but Mr Downer downplayed talk of a tilt at a state seat. “It is hard to imagine I would ever go back into politics,’’ he said. “What I will do next I don’t know.’’ Mr Downer has been Australia’s man in London during the Scottish referendum, a British general election and the Brexit referendum. He said the consequences of the Brexit vote had manifested itself in “a heightened level of interest in Australia as a partner’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Before the Brexit vote the dynamic of British international relations was directed towards Europe,’’ he said. “Since then, there has been a heightened interest in Australia, the relationship and how they can build up that.’’ Under Theresa May’s government, the defence relationship had become much tighter, with the two countries committed to joint exercises.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Britain is also interested in Australia’s handling of <b>asylum</b>-seekers and <b>boat</b> turnbacks. Australia is insisting that in a free-trade agreement with Britain, to be negotiated after Brexit, there will be visa accommodations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With pressures on the eurozone, the distaste of northern European voters for propping up southern states, and the <span class="companylink">EU</span>’s impotence in the face of its irregular migration crisis, there are forecasts of political lurches to the right.But Mr Downer said: “I am not sure you can draw too many catastrophic conclusions in the way voters are responding to these difficult issues. I don’t know that the <span class="companylink">EU</span> is going to collapse. I think the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> will plough on into the years ahead.’’</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | uk : United Kingdom | eland : England | london : London (UK) | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | eecz : European Union Countries | eurz : Europe | weurz : Western Europe</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020161204ecc50005p</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-COUMAI0020161204ecc50006n" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>OpEd</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>IDEOLOGY IS FAILING OUR KIDS</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Rowan Dean </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>780 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 December 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Modern teaching methods are not helping our students, writes Rowan Dean</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HERE’S a test for the teachers of Australia. Please answer the following question truthfully and without using any of the following words; ‘funding’, ‘money’, ‘Gonski’. Got it? OK, here’s the question: What is it about your modern teaching methods that is making our kids stupider instead of smarter? Your time starts now.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The reason I ask this question is the troubling study released last week, “Trends in International Maths and Science”, that shows Aussie Years 4 and 8 students “tumbling down international academic rankings”, according to The Australian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Geoff Masters, of the <span class="companylink">Australian Council for Educational Research</span>, wrote: “The 20-year slide in maths and science learning is a national challenge that requires a national response. The answer is not to do more of the same.” The federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham, (whose department isn’t actually in charge of a single school), admitted he was “embarrassed”. Not as embarrassed as teachers should be. In NSW, of nearly 100 HSC (Year 12) subjects only 12 cover maths and science. What added to the embarrassment was the disturbing, and comical, fact that our kids are being made to look like dunces by countries like Kazakhstan (of “Borat” fame), the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Lithuania.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Naturally, we expect the Singaporeans to do better than us, but Kazakhstan? Seriously?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Interestingly, of the countries whose teachers, or teaching methods, “significantly outperform” our own, several are ex-communist countries. Countries that have, to greater or lesser degrees, moved away from Marxism over the past few decades. Could striving for democracy make you smarter? And does the converse apply? Could becoming dumber make you less keen on democracy? Is there a link between socialism and stupidity?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier this year the Journal of Democracy ran an article, ‘The sign of democratic deconsolidation’, showing that the number of people in the West who believe “democracy is essential” is falling dramatically, particularly among the young. This ties in with a poll by our own <span class="companylink">Lowy Institute</span> which showed “only 39 per cent of 18 to 29-year-olds felt that democracy was the most preferable form of government”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is truly frightening. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy may have its flaws but it beats the bejesus out of every other system.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet here we are, our kids getting dumber and, coincidentally, a staggering 61 per cent of them thinking there’s a better form of government than democracy. Now, I wonder where they might be picking up that idea? From their parents? From their footy coaches? From the owner of the local burger joint? From their friends on <span class="companylink">Instagram</span>? Nope. My guess is that an aversion to democracy is what they are being taught. At school. By teachers whose salaries you and I pay.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Check out the repulsive Safe Schools program, supposedly designed to prevent the bullying of gays and transgender students (a perfectly worthy cause), but infused with Marxist thinking. Its author, Roz Ward, claims “LBGTI oppression and heteronormativity are woven into the fabric of capitalism… Only Marxism provides both the theory and the practice of genuine human liberation… Marxism offers the hope and the strategy needed to create a world where human sexuality, gender and how we relate to our bodies can blossom in extraordinarily new and amazing ways that we can only try to imagine today…” We’re letting these people teach our kids?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Or there’s the union-backed Cool Australia, a teaching tool used by 71 per cent of all schools, according to Tony Thomas, writing on Quadrant Online this week. His article, “Teach ’em Green, raise ’em stupid”, details how this program, which goes to over a million students, is infused with left-wing ideology on everything from <b>asylum</b> seekers to climate change, including hard-core anti-capitalism. Thomas cites Green neo-Marxist twaddle being rammed down our gullible kids’ throats – or rather, into their impressionable young minds - such as the desirability of “a new economic model that accounts for both people and the planet in a just and sustainable way”. Hmmm. What would that be, I wonder. Socialism, perhaps?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So, while the kids in Kazakhstan get Pythagoras, ours get penis-tucking. While the kids in Lithuania get fermionic condensates, ours get <b>boat</b> people and global warming. Added to this is the ludicrous notion that most of our subjects nowadays include indigenous, Asian and environmental components.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">OK, pens down. Hands up any teacher who could answer why our kids are going backwards without using the words ‘funding’, ‘money’ or ‘Gonski’. Nobody? Not a single one of you? What a surprise.Twitter @rowandean</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>aucer : Australian Council for Educational Research</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020161204ecc50006n</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020161204ecc500037" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Downer says no more politics after London post ends</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jacquelin Magnay London </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>395 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 December 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Alexander Downer has rejected suggestions he will return to politics once his three-year term as Australia’s London high commissioner ends next year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amid speculation that Attorney-General George Brandis will be handed the London post, possibly as early as the new year, Mr Downer said he — and his successor — had no idea of the timing.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It has nothing to do with me. Somebody will replace me as this is not a permanent job,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">South Australian-born Mr Downer, 65, the nation’s longest-serving foreign minister, said people had speculated for three years that he would return to politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The next South Australian election will be held on March 17, 2018, when the Liberals will try to oust Labor after 16 years in power, but Mr Downer downplayed talk of a tilt at a state seat. “It is hard to imagine I would ever go back into politics,’’ he said. “What I will do next I don’t know.’’ Mr Downer has been Australia’s man in London during the Scottish referendum, a British general election and the Brexit referendum. He said the consequences of the Brexit vote had manifested itself in “a heightened level of interest in Australia as a partner’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Before the Brexit vote the dynamic of British international relations was directed towards Europe,’’ he said. “Since then, there has been a heightened interest in Australia, the relationship and how they can build up that.’’ Under Theresa May’s government, the defence relationship had become much tighter, with the two countries committed to joint exercises.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Britain is also interested in Australia’s handling of <b>asylum</b>-seekers and <b>boat</b> turnbacks. Australia is insisting that in a free-trade agreement with Britain, to be negotiated after Brexit, there will be visa accommodations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With pressures on the eurozone, the distaste of northern European voters for propping-up southern states, and the <span class="companylink">EU</span>’s impotence in the face of its irregular migration crisis, there are forecasts of political lurches to the right.But Mr Downer said: “I am not sure you can draw too many catastrophic conclusions in the way voters are responding to these difficult issues. I don’t know that the <span class="companylink">EU</span> is going to collapse. I think the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> will plough on into the years ahead.’’</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | uk : United Kingdom | eland : England | london : London (UK) | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | eecz : European Union Countries | eurz : Europe | weurz : Western Europe</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020161204ecc500037</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020161202ecc30004t" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Forum - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>What politicians don't want themselves to see</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EVA ORNER - Eva Orner is an Australian filmmaker. She wrote this piece with lawyer Steven Glass. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>711 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 December 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TALKING POINT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Peter Dutton really wanted to deal with the difficult issues in his portfolio rather than scoring cheap political points against protesters who engage in civil disobedience, he might have come to see our documentary Chasing <b>Asylum</b>, which screened in Parliament House on Tuesday night, just a few metres from his office.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he didn't. Neither did the Prime Minister, who recently claimed, falsely, our <b>refugee</b> policy is "generous". Neither did anybody from the government. Sarah Hanson-Young, who hosted the screening, sent out 4000 invitations, including to all MPs and their staff, but the only politicians who attended were Senator Hanson-Young and one member of the ALP. The other attendees were ambassadors from a range of European countries, an embassy official from the United States, and a handful of journalists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chasing <b>Asylum</b> shows us the real impact of Australia's offshore detention policies. It features footage secretly obtained from inside the offshore detention camps. It makes us witness to the mental, physical and fiscal consequences of Australia's decision to lock away refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers in unsafe and unsanitary conditions, hidden from media scrutiny, destroying their lives under the pretext of saving them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The film was released theatrically in May. It is the highest-grossing Australian documentary of the year. In the past few weeks it has been broadcast by the <span class="companylink">BBC</span> in Britain and NHK in Japan. By the middle of next year it will have screened throughout Europe and in the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since the April premiere in Toronto we have participated in more than 80 question-and-answer sessions at screenings in Australia and around the world. This week's screening was the first that one of these sessions was not packed. It was barely attended at all.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a shocking indictment of our politicians, virtually none of whom have ever visited our offshore detention centres, that they appear to have such lack of interest in seeing for themselves the impact the laws they have enacted are having on the people affected by them. Politicians pursuing good, principled policy development in Australia's national interest would, we'd have thought, prefer to act on evidence rather than on the political expediency of sloganeering. By showing the film in their workplace, we could hardly have made it easier for them to do so.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In other policy areas it has been a productive period in Parliament. Last week a new law was passed that included the strongest protection for whistleblowers ever legislated in this country. Individuals who dob in union officials - even if they do it anonymously, and even if it is done in bad faith - are protected from having their identity disclosed, and reprisals against them including inadvertent ones are illegal. But under our border protection laws, if you are a school teacher or a welfare worker in Manus or Nauru, acting in the utmost good faith, you face imprisonment for two years for blowing the whistle on a security guard who has raped a young child.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All of this suggests that our politicians have an inexplicable but very serious blind spot when it comes to people seeking <b>asylum</b>. And they want to blind us, too. The film includes gut-wrenching testimony from social workers, health workers, a security official and a department of immigration official, all of whom worked on Manus and Nauru. Yet people like this now operate under the cloud of legislation that can impose jail time for telling the truth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hopefully, the three-year nightmare for those in these camps will soon end, with a deal having been announced that will enable many of them to live in safety in the US. But what does that deal say about the effectiveness of offshore detention? Simultaneously with the announcement the government told us that a flotilla of naval vessels would be deployed to protect our northern borders from an expected surge in <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There could not be a more eloquent or forceful admission of the tragic failure and futility of offshore detention as a means of deterring people from seeking protection from persecution. </p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Immigration/Asylum | gmovie : Movies | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gent : Arts/Entertainment | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020161202ecc30004t</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020161201ecc20000r" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>WA protester has no regrets</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Tillett and Phoebe Wearne </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>301 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 December 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Second</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A West Australian ringleader of protests that disrupted Parliament for two days in a row is unrepentant, saying the group’s dramatic activities were needed to highlight the plight of <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two protesters from the Whistleblowers, Activists and Citizens Alliance have been summoned to appear in court after they abseiled from the roof of Parliament yesterday and unfurled a banner above the building’s main entrance demanding offshore detention camps be closed.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They stayed on the roof for almost 2½ hours, coming down only after a police negotiator threatened to send search and rescue officers to bring them down.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About dozen more protesters poured red dye and launched an inflatable raft into a pond in Parliament’s forecourt to symbolise the blood of dead <b>boat</b> people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They also left voluntarily and no charges were laid.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday’s protesters were the same group who disrupted question time on Wednesday by glueing their hands to railings and chanting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Alliance spokesman Phil Evans, a former resident of WA’s North West before moving to Melbourne, was among protesters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We’ve all taken time off work to come and fight for basic human rights,” he said. “We’ve come from Melbourne, we’ve come from Sydney.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The protests raised fresh concerns about safety at Parliament House, with MPs voting yesterday to upgrade security, including erecting a 2.6m-high fence to cut public access to the grassy hills over the building.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Speaker Tony Smith conceded the security changes would “obviously have a serious impact on the original design intent of Parliament House”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The building is designed so the public can walk over the heads of their elected representatives, symbolising true democracy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under the changes, the fence will block access to the sloping lawns.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcivds : Civil Unrest | gcat : Political/General News | gcns : National/Public Security | grisk : Risk News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020161201ecc20000r</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020161201ecc20000d" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Greens help PM to victory over backpacker tax</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAVID CROWE POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>780 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 December 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull has hailed a surprise victory in parliament as proof he can work with a divided Senate to push through his economic policies next year, despite a row last night over the cost of his deal with the Greens to legislate a new tax rate on backpackers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister declared the result proved he could “make the parliament work” on contested policies, including a sweeping cut to company tax rates, after a wild week of negotiation that sparked claims of chaos in Canberra.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government defended its $100 million pledge to the Greens to put more cash into Landcare schemes backed by farmers, arguing the four-year promise would be offset over time by the tax on working holiday-makers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The offer helped Mr Turnbull score a vital political win over Bill Shorten by corralling the Greens and seven Senate crossbenchers behind a compromise on a 15 per cent backpacker tax, staring down Labor over its demands for a lower rate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten dismissed the deal as a concession to the Greens that would cost taxpayers more than it was worth, accusing the Prime Minister of being willing to “pay any price to anyone” to get his way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With employers increasingly worried foreign backpackers would shun Australia because of months of uncertainty over the tax, parliament finally legislated the changes last night to set the 15 per cent rate and prevent it ­defaulting to 32.5 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The quest for political advantage saw every side of the fight shift position on the tax, with Labor offering to move from 10.5 per cent to 13 per cent at noon yesterday while Victorian independent Derryn Hinch also held out for 13 per cent after previously voting for both 10.5 per cent and 19 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The final shift came when the Greens surprised Labor and agreed to move from 10.5 to 15 per cent, sealing a deal with the government after Scott Morrison had earlier dropped from 19 to 15.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens leader Richard Di ­Natale and Treasury spokesman Peter Whish-Wilson backed the compromise rate after negotiating with Finance Minister Mathias Cormann to give the backpackers more of their super contributions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Existing rules mean the government reclaims 95 per cent of those super contributions but the new rate will be 65 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Whish-Wilson said the result was an “effective rate” of 13 per cent overall when the super changes were included.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The $100m commitment to Landcare combined with an estimated $60m sacrifice on super to leave the government with a $160m cost for its deal over four years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The base rate now falls into line with the 15 per cent tax applied to seasonal workers from the Pacific islands, after Mr Turnbull ­accused Mr Shorten of wanting a lower rate for “rich white kids from ­Europe” compared with workers from Tonga.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten said the result was a “bigger tax at a bigger cost” ­because of the pledge on Landcare, which is a partial reversal of a $483m cut to Landcare in the ­Coalition’s May 2014 budget.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Malcolm Turnbull is spending $100m more so he can have a higher rate of backpacker tax. You can’t make this up,” he said. “It goes to show Malcolm Turnbull will pay any price to anyone.” Mr Turnbull did not criticise ­crossbenchers, despite suggestions he had been “doublecrossed” when Senator Hinch switched position earlier in the week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’m not going to start complaining about crossbenchers,” Mr Turnbull said late yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We respect the crossbench, they’re all entitled to vote as they please — it’s our job to persuade them that our propositions are worthy of their endorsement.” Mr Morrison said the deal on a measure that would add to the budget bottom line — even after several compromises — would show credit ratings agencies such as <span class="companylink">Standard & Poor’s</span> that the parliament could agree on savings. “That sends a very strong message, a good message on the last day of parliament to the ratings agencies that he government is making the 45th parliament work, particularly for the budget,” the Treasurer said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government’s wider agenda is still under question, given it lacks majority support for the full company tax cuts and other changes in limbo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government was last night seeking to pass changes to student loans to stamp out corrupt colleges in vocational education and training. But it avoided a debate on its “lifetime ban” on <b>asylum</b>-seekers who seek to come by <b>boat</b>, which means it cannot try to legislate the border protection laws until next year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EDITORIAL P15</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>We don't deserve a UN seat</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Alexandra Lancaster is a researcher at Harvard University in the areas of human rights, immigration practices and child protection. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>548 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 December 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has thrown its sullied hat in the ring to pursue a seat on the <span class="companylink">UN Human Rights Council</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By putting forward Australia's candidacy, the government effectively promises to promote human rights for all, to lead by example and to champion the rights of vulnerable and marginalised people.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Julie Bishop declared in a speech to the <span class="companylink">UN General Assembly</span> that Australia would bring a "principled and pragmatic" approach when serving on the Human Rights Council.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet, principled and pragmatic approaches to <b>asylum</b> seekers are not evident in government policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has been criticised repeatedly by the Human Rights Council, countless other international bodies and humanitarian organisations over its offshore detention and <b>boat</b> turn-back policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Undocumented men, women and children have been detained on Nauru or Manus Island for an indefinite time. The government has bluntly stated that they will never be settled in Australia. Many have lived on these islands for years, and will continue to do so for years to come - out of sight, and out of mind.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Why are we punishing <b>asylum</b> seekers? We are living in a time where it is politically popular to appeal to those who are afraid of <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At present, the government is considering adding a lifetime ban to the Migration Act. It's bizarre, cruel and unnecessary. Every person has a right to flee danger. Every person has a right to seek safety. <b>Asylum</b> seekers are not criminals, and they do not deserve a lifetime ban from our country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Wednesday, protesters halted question time by responding to this bizarre amendment by using a bizarre tactic: they glued themselves to hand railings and furniture in Parliament House. They wanted politicians to know that they cannot sweep the changes to the Migration Act under the rug.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It seems unlikely that the Labor or Liberal parties will change tack and propose humane policies when dealing with <b>asylum</b> seekers. They've been in near lockstep on <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the international stage, the question is whether the Australian government truly believes we can lead the international community in human rights when our own backyard is in a state of shambles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our government has vehemently defended the use of Manus Island and Nauru. It is unwilling to make policy changes recommended by the international community. If Australia is promoted to the Human Rights Council, how can we expect others nations to change when we do not lead by example?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How can we be a leader in human rights when we are looking to impose a lifetime ban on refugees seeking <b>asylum</b>?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The amendments already in the Migration Act demonstrate to <b>asylum</b> seekers that they are unwanted. The lifetime ban is excessive; it is cruel to deny them the opportunity to ever visit family and friends who live in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the Parliament passes this change to the Migration Act we are not defenders of rights, nor should we claim to be. Instead, we are guilty of adding to the suffering of the weak and vulnerable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If our government continues to promote inhumane policies no one could support Australia's candidacy, publicly or privately.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>unhrc : United Nations Human Rights Council</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Immigration/Asylum | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020161201ecc20003t</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-NEHR000020161130ecc10001j" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Joy as family grows and days get longer</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Annie Young </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>605 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 December 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At last! Do you begin to feel some warmth on your back, a pleasure in sitting at night with friends for a drink before dinner, a barbecue where you didn't have to freeze your eyebrows off?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Summer has come so late this year I began to believe it was never going to arrive and we would be thrown straight back into another dark and dreary winter.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The rains certainly arrived during this winter, and consequently our modest garden is about to take us over in our beds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, I can never complain about rain - not after all those horrendous years of drought we endured.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is still too searing and fresh in my memory, holding that hose late at night, attempting to keep exhausted plants from dying on us when we had half an acre to care for.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, in our very modest 45 squares of garden, I can cherish every plant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having told them they must grow or go, now they all need stern trimming back and some may even have to go.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Oh! What treachery when they have served us so well ... too well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With summer comes birthdays and our family gathers to celebrate three granddaughters and one daughter, all together on one day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They all have so many commitments with extra activities that we can't celebrate individuals any more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was probably one of those first really hot Sundays. As soon as the formalities were over, from somewhere, out came the water bombs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was indeed a fight to the finish - every grandchild gleefully pitching their water bombs at another cousin, and being whacked in return.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was everyone for himself, and the grandchildren eventually retreated back inside, soaked to the skin and high as kites.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That loud shrieking and laughter which go with summers in a pool, summer with a hose and summer with water bombs has at last returned for the next few months. And I just love it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite the natural way children revert to wild animal behaviour when the situation presents itself, it has been beautiful to see how they have so gently welcomed the newest arrival to our troop's numbers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This wee one is only eight weeks old. As her mother was holding her, the cousins would ever so gently and quietly come to this tiny moppet, kiss her softly and, if they wanted to, have a quick nurse of the beautiful baby girl.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She was a "pass the parcel" baby all day, with each cousin being offered time with her for a cuddle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When she was first born her eldest cousin, who is 15, insisted on visiting her with his mother but not his two sisters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He knew too well he would not be allowed a look in if the two girls were with them, so off he went on his own.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I have a beautiful photo of this very tall young man holding this baby girl very confidently in his arms, looking very proud.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I know we have too many people in the world these days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earth is straining under the challenges to feed, house, clothe and water everyone. And yet, bring a baby into a group and everyone is immediately captivated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most poignant photos by far in any war are those of a soldier, armed to the eyeballs, carrying a tiny baby out of a burnt out, bombed building, or perhaps lifting them out of a <b>refugee boat</b>. It touches the hearts of people everywhere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I declare summer here. Long may it last!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Annie Young is a Fairfax contributor.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Great success — for the Kazakhs, while Australia’s schoolkids fall further behind</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CUT & PASTE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>565 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 December 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Confusion over Borat suggests it’s not just youngsters who need to brush up on geography</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course Borat wasn’t actually made by the Kazakhs, a point lost on Education Minister Simon Birmingham, who reacted to news of Australia’s slipping academic perform­ance, ABC News, yesterday: I don’t want to denigrate Kazakhstan, or indeed their artistic skills with movies like Borat. I think, though, Australia should be seeking to be amongst the best in the world and declines like this are unacceptable and that we need to be working hard to turn it around.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ABC may need to go back to school as well. An ABC News website report, since amended, yesterday: Kazakhstan — a Central Asian country well-known for the … film Borat …</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How can this be? The Sydney Morning <span class="companylink">Herald</span> with the latest education news from NSW, July 21: Thousands of NSW school students will have a greater focus on the environment, Asia, and the role of women and Aboriginal leaders in shaping modern Australian history under a suite of proposed electives to be introduced by the <span class="companylink">NSW Board of Studies</span> on Thursday. “We are not frightened to go to those issues just because they can be pigeonholed as ‘lefty progressive issues’,” Board of Studies president Tom Alegounarias said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s really quite unfathomable. The Australian, October 14: Victorian students will be taught about “male privilege” and how “masculinity” encourages “control and dominance” over women, as part of a mandatory new school subject aimed at combating family violence. The Victorian government will push ahead with the rollout of its $21.8 million respectful relationships educa­tion program, despite claims the pro­gram fails to consider the multiple and complex drivers of family violence, ignores male victims and am­ounts to the brainwashing of children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those xenophobes at Guardian Australia, always making fun of how immig­rants speak. Political reporter Paul Karp, <span class="companylink">Twitter</span>, yesterday: (Mathias) Cormann says Labor will wear backpacker tax like “a rose of crowns”. Think that should be “crown of thorns”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>’s Ruby Hamad forgets that there aren’t many third countries between Havana and Key West, yesterday: Right-wing commentators have alternated between mocking leftist leaders such as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his praise of Castro and praising Cuban-Americans for braving “shark-infested waters in tiny boats to get away from Castro’s tyranny”. But these are often the same people who support Australia’s draconian “You’ll never settle in Australia if you come by <b>boat</b>” <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Janet Albrechtsen takes a swipe against moral relativism in The Australian, yesterday: In the Left’s own post-truth world, inconvenient facts that challenge their penchant for socialism are simply ignored … Indeed, Castro’s death has laid bare the moral bankruptcy of the broader Left. You don’t have to watch Hollywood’s latest instalment of dystopian fiction.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">News you can use. Headline, Sydney Morning <span class="companylink">Herald</span> website, yesterday: The four things that could kill you this summer</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We blame climate change. ABC News website, yesterday: A New Zealand fur seal has been released back into the ocean after being found in a cow paddock near Bega in southeastern NSW … “It looked like it was in a good condition, but it looked very tired,” (council rangers) said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gedu : Education | gmovie : Movies | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gent : Arts/Entertainment | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020161130ecc10001n</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-COUMAI0020161129ecbu0000x" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Confidential</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Funding in the picture</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AMY PRICE KRISTY SYMONDS LEXIE CARTWRIGHT </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>159 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 November 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SCREEN Australia has backed 15 new domestic film projects for 2017, including two slated for southeast Queensland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Comedy flick Mr Cranky, due to film on the Gold Coast early next year, was one of the seven films and eight TV series granted $15 million in the final round of funding for 2016.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The film will see Irish actor Brendan Gleeson (pictured), of the Harry Potter films, head Down Under. It will be directed by Jonathan Teplitzky of The Railway Man.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Drama Safe Harbour, which follows friends on a yacht trip from Brisbane to Indonesia who encounter a <b>boat</b> of <b>asylum</b> seekers, was also locked in for a four-part series on SBS.Other projects include a second season of Channel 7’s The Secret Daughter and big-budget film Andorra, starring Guy Pearce, Clive Owen and Toni Collette, which is due to begin filming in Italy in April.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>scraut : Screen Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gmovie : Movies | gcele : Celebrities | gcat : Political/General News | gent : Arts/Entertainment | glife : Living/Lifestyle</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | queensl : Queensland | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020161129ecbu0000x</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020161129ecbu0004b" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>All heroes have their dark side, no matter what side they're on</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Ruby Hamad is a Fairfax Media columnist. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>839 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 November 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In what must surely go down as one of the greatest "owns" in <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> history, US president Barack Obama this week got his country's glaring hypocrisy served to him on a silver platter by British comedian Frankie Boyle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marking the death of Cuban revolutionary leader turned long-time dictator Fidel Castro, Obama added, "America will always stand for human rights around the world."</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boyle's response? "You've got a torture camp in Cuba."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Obama can console himself that he is far from alone. Castro's death, in inflaming double standards on both sides of mainstream politics, is revealing a deeply uncomfortable truth about humanity: we may believe we are on the side of good but tend to be happy to ignore injustice when it suits us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Conservatives are frothing over leftists who ignore Castro's death squads and other abuses on the basis that these far overshadow the achievements his fans cling to as the true markers of his legacy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They have a point. The sycophancy in some quarters has been hard to stomach. The focus on Castro's thrilling overthrow of the dictator that came before him - the US-friendly Fulgencio Batista - and his success in fending off the might of US wrath for so many decades conveniently overlooks the fact that Castro did this often to the detriment of his own people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Such effusive praise, coming as it does from people living in the West who, I'm sure, quite enjoy living in a country where they can vote for their leaders and (for now at least) criticise them in public without risking disappearance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But that doesn't mean Castro critics are off the hook. Conservatives in particular, and the West in general, are always glossing over their own human rights abuses, as Boyle so concisely pointed out to the President.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Staying in Latin America, the US was intimately involved in the rise of right-wing dictators including Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Jorge Videla in Argentina, both of whom were arguably more despotic and trigger happy than Castro.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They, however, were tyrants in the name of capitalism, not socialism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Right-wing commentators have alternated between mocking leftist leaders such as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his praise of Castro and praising Cuban-Americans for braving "shark-infested waters in tiny boats to get away from Castro's tyranny".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But these are often the same people who support Australia's draconian "you'll never settle in Australia if you come by <b>boat</b>" <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From what I am seeing on social media from Cubans themselves, it appears Cubans both loved and hated Castro. This is wholly unsurprising; our perspective is determined by our personal advantage or disadvantage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Middle-class and affluent Cubans who lost wealth during Castro's revolution are certainly not going to be grieving, nor will others who felt let down by Castro's failure to bring prosperity and his refusal to relinquish power. Of course, the US embargo had much to do with these, but why let nuance get in the way?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This can be broadly applied to almost any prominent political rift. Depending on who you ask, Israel is either an apartheid state or a bastion of democracy; Yasser Arafat was either a freedom fighter or a terrorist; Castro was either a visionary anti-imperialist or a power-driven tyrant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps it is time we replaced "or" with "and".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our failure to admit to the dark side of our own heroes allows history to be rewritten and repeated. Echo "America is a light unto all nations" often enough, and the screams of Pinochet's victims will easily be drowned out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Winston Churchill famously said "The truth is incontrovertible". Indeed, it is. Including the truth about Churchill. He may have been voted the greatest ever Briton in 2002, but Churchill also spoke in favour of using poison gas against "uncivilised tribes", presided over the Bengal famine that killed up to 3 million Indians and boasted about killing "savages" as a soldier in Africa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The "Western values" of freedom and democracy and free expression are indeed great gifts. What a shame then that Western powers have spent literally centuries deliberately denying them to others.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Israel is both a democracy ( flawed but a democracy nonetheless) and an oppressive occupier that gets away with shocking human rights abuses.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yasser Arafat was indeed resisting this Israeli oppression and occupation, and in doing so he turned a blind eye to terrorism and the victimisation of innocent Israelis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Castro was a revolutionary that defied American imperialism, fired the flame of socialist equality ... and he made some of his people suffer for this vision. None of these things cancels each other out. But, in throwing our own double standards in our faces, they pose a question that many of us may be reluctant to answer: is it justice or ideology that matters most to us?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>usa : United States | cuba : Cuba | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | caribz : Caribbean Islands | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | lamz : Latin America | namz : North America</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020161129ecbu0004b</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020161127ecbs0000n" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Fake flotilla key to turn-backs</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EXCLUSIVEAndrew ProbynFederal Political Editor </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>488 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 November 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Second</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A flotilla of fake fishing boats is now a key part of the Federal Government’s frontline defence against <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The boats, built in Vietnam under a multimillion-dollar contract and refurbished in Darwin to Australian survey standards, are designed to look like Asian fishing boats to avoid regional tension.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pictured here for the first time by a photographer commissioned by The West Australian off the Cocos Islands, the 12m vessels are kept ready for use on the stern of the Australian Border Force’s two offshore patrol vessels, Oceanic Shield and Oceanic Protector.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They have largely replaced the orange lifeboats used under former prime minister Tony Abbott’s hardline Operation Sovereign Borders which forcibly turned back <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With new motors, reinforced wooden hulls, navigation equipment and lifejackets, the fishing boats have also been given expert paint jobs to look authentic — bright colours and even faux rust stains.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Government sources said the fishing boats had been built after the single-use orange lifeboats caused diplomatic irritation to the Indonesian Government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were also concerns that <b>asylum</b> seekers had faced difficulties with Indonesian authorities and coastal villagers after being forced back on the distinctive vessels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some <b>asylum</b> seekers sent back to Indonesia on the orange lifeboats were arrested on arrival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood the Australian Government has more than a dozen of the fishing boats and several have been deployed in turn-backs to Indonesia and Vietnam.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The fishing boats are fitted out with fuel, food and water.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Built under contract, they were re-caulked and given stronger hulls in Darwin shipyards to withstand storms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the cost of building and refitting the fishing boats has not been disclosed, it is more than the $2.5 million spent on orange lifeboats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A source familiar with <b>boat</b> interceptions said the fishing boats or orange lifeboats are used only if Customs mechanics deem an <b>asylum</b> seekers’ vessel dangerously unseaworthy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There have been 29 <b>boat</b> turn-backs since the coalition won the 2013 election and though the last one happened some months ago, Department of Immigration and Border Protection secretary Mike Pezzullo said there would be no relaxation of maritime border controls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Pezzullo told the National Security College in Canberra last week that “industrial-scale people smuggling and human trafficking” ranked third as a criminal enterprise behind drugs and weapons trafficking.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He warned 14,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers were on the Indonesian archipelago — people wanting to get to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If the way to Australia was reopened, that 14,000 would become the vanguard ... and boats would restart within a few weeks,” Mr Pezzullo said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokesman for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the ABF used a “variety of vessels to prepare for and perform its maritime tasks”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“For operational security purposes, the ABF does not disclose details about operational activity or the locations of ABF assets,” the spokesman said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Immigration/Asylum | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | indon : Indonesia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020161127ecbs0000n</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020161125ecbq0005a" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Inquirer</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Post-truth was out there, but electorate ignored it</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CHRIS KENNY ASSOCIATE EDITOR </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1339 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 November 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In its rush to deny phenomena such as Trump or Brexit, the liberal media overlooks reality</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Donald Trump, say the progressive media commentators, has been elevated on the back of post-truth politics. They couldn’t be more right, or more wrong.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The liberal media, smug about its own world view, sees Trump’s victory as evidence voters ignored the truth it presented. Silly voters; the media is never wrong.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It believes voters fell for Trump’s post-truth over the media’s truth. The self-delusion is staggering.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On our shores, the Guardian Australia’s Katharine Murphy put it this way: “We’ve been drifting, in increments, in the direction of post-truth, but the election of Trump is a headfirst pitch over the cliff. A person with manifest disdain for facts and evidence now occupies the White House because half the country didn’t care.” As Murphy would have it, the media “did its job” trying to expose a “manifestly unqualified and potentially dangerous” candidate. Murphy discounted the “post-truth partisan hackery of Fox News” because she says it isn’t journalism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The point that set Fox’s coverage apart from the media Murphy defends is that it got the story right, portraying Trump as a plausible contender. Fox also was, as ever, upfront about its own right-of-centre perspective. Viewers can take it or leave it, but there is no pretence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The overwhelming majority of left-of-centre journalists and media organisations portray themselves as objective, “independent” or centrist. In doing so, they take their audiences for fools and break the nexus of trust at the first hurdle. Truth, and its absence, is a powerful factor in current discourse. No political group or individual is blameless but the progressive media doesn’t care to examine its own deceptions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps the dishonesty of the PC brigade helps to drive voters to people such as Trump, Pauline Hanson and the Brexiteers, despite misgivings. When you are be­ing corralled in a certain direction by a jaundiced and sanctimonious political/media class consensus, why not rebel against it?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Remember, I say this as someone who opposed Trump and argued US voters would be unwise to abstain because they needed to pinch their noses and vote for Hillary Clinton to stop him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By calling out the cosy establishment of politicians, media and lobbyists, and raising real grievances they ruled off-limits, he was a compelling figure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is much more to be analysed about Trump’s win — particularly economic factors and swing state campaigning — but this post-truth aspect is fascinating because we see loud echoes of it in our own politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The political/media class, exemplified by our taxpayer-funded media but strongly reflected in most political coverage, skews the news and opinion it produces on major issues. This underestimates the intelligence of the public, who surely resent being patronised.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Journalists and left-of-centre politicians (including Coalition moderates) can get caught up in self-referential circles, affirming their version of reality. Voters crash the party at elections or, if the politicians are lucky, by voicing their concerns beforehand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech, carbon tax and live cattle export ban were illustrative examples, as was the NSW Baird government’s recent greyhound rac­ing ban — they were cheered by the Left and media but recognised as madness by the public.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week Immigration Minister Peter Dutton spoke harsh truths about the Islamic extremists who have emerged from our Lebanese Muslim community, and the reaction from the green-Left and progressive media was classically post-truth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The message Bill Shorten accused Dutton of promulgating was the polar opposite of what the minister enunciated. Dutton said the majority of Lebanese Muslims who have “done the right thing by this country” should not be “defined by those people who have done the wrong thing” but the Opposition Leader accused him of the “wholesale labelling of entire communities for the actions of a tiny minority”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten’s critique was fallacious but most media did not pin him. Before long the Guardian Australia was calling Dutton’s comments “incendiary” and <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> was running “Dutton race row” headlines and calls for his resignation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As for the well-established facts about Lebanese Muslims arrested in terror operations and broader, extensively analysed problems of welfare dependency, crime and poor integration, the more outraged the media outlets, the less interested they were in such matters. Greens senator Nick McKim captured the zeitgeist. “Undoubtedly the advice he’s got is accurate but just because something is fact doesn’t mean that it’s reasonable or productive to talk about it,” he told Sky News.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Do these politicians and journalists presume the public (to use Jack Nicholson’s famous line) can’t handle the truth?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Or do they think the public will join a delusional parlour game of political theatre when serious issues of security, immigration and cohesion are at play? Some partisans will, of course, but the crucial, sensible centre is more interested in reality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the real post-truth environment: mainstream voters seeing through the spin and jaundice of an overwhelmingly green-Left political/media class. Just as they have long been sceptical of arguments from big business because of its obvious self-interest, voters discern a politically correct agenda from the establishment, including the media.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Climate change is an area where these pontificators treat the public like mugs. Anyone with a pulse knows the scientific consensus about carbon dioxide emissions and temperature models; the complexity comes in whether actual events match the models, whether remedial action is worthwhile and comparing the range of possible responses and their likely costs and benefits.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet the political/media class pretends Australian action — be it a wind farm or a carbon price — equates to an environmental benefit. Does it think the public is not aware we contribute only 1.3 per cent of global emissions?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the political/media class continually censors such realities, or eliminates them from discussions, to maintain a simplistic and binary discussion, does it think mainstream voters will never discover that China and India continue to massively increase global emissions?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Do the politicians and journalists presume all members of the public want to join their campaign of climate gestures or do they think we are too silly to comprehend that we are being made to pay higher electricity prices to produce a net environmental dividend of next to zero?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These are the same journalists, activists and politicians who went quiet on border protection when it was in chaos under Labor. ABC news bulletins often neglected to report <b>boat</b> arrivals, the <span class="companylink">Australian Human Rights Commission</span> sec­retly delayed an inquiry into children in detention and journalists re­peated Labor’s mantra that “push factors” were to blame and boats simply could not be turned back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After the Coalition turned back boats, stopped the people-smuggling and started emptying and closing the detention centres, the AHRC finally began its detention inquiry and the media went back to shrill reports of <b>boat</b> arrivals and claims of mistreatment from <b>asylum</b>-seekers. Instructively, only after the change of government did the ABC construct a web page to log the arrival of every <b>boat</b>; clearly intended to log the Coalition’s failure, it quickly became redundant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The media/political class can easily convince itself of its ‘‘truthiness” version of reality, and it can have it reinforced constantly by “independent” and social media, but it can’t fool the public. That is the real message of the post-truth age. And the public has the ultimate say through the ballot box. The more they are preached at, especially with incorrect assertions or incomplete arguments, the more they are likely to rebel.In this respect, Murphy may have been on the money when, in her piece about the media’s efforts to expose Trump, she said: “Our efforts to make things better could be making things worse.”</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Huy Truong arrived here as a seven year old and watched his family fit in and prosper. He has a financial plan to help other newcomers do the same, writes Michael Bleby.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's quite a journey out to lunch in Box Hill. The 109 tram makes its way up Collins Street from AFR Weekend's office, then out through East Melbourne and the suburbs of Richmond, Hawthorn, Kew and Balwyn.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As you come up Whitehorse Road in Surrey Hills the rising towers of Melbourne's fast-growing second CBD suddenly appear, an unexpected monument to the growing wealth of immigrant Asian Australia that is rising, determined and successful, outside the immediate gaze of the established city.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The terminus of the 109 - which, appropriately, started its journey at Port Melbourne- is surrounded by signs and businesses that reflect the toil and aspiration of Australia's newest middle class: The Bank of China, cargo companies, conveyancers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indochine sits in a strip row of plate glass-fronted eateries on a road that is the off-ramp for the adjacent Box Hill Shopping Centre. No plastic-tablecloth-and-vinyl-floor joint, it has a more relaxed and expensive decor to match its clients' wealth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We didn't have to come out all the way here. Huy Truong's own office sits comfortably in central Melbourne's boutique Flinders Lane. But he has a good reason for meeting at Indochine: "The owner of this restaurant, so my parents tell me, was actually one of the first <b>boat refugee</b> arrivals, and started selling beef noodles out of the back of her kitchen at home. And ended up setting up a restaurant. We grew up in Ringwood, so this was probably the closest beef noodle place."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Truong had arrived by <b>boat</b> in 1978, aged 7, one of many Vietnamese refugees given shelter by Malcolm Fraser's Australia. Just over 20 years later, in 1999, he, his wife Cathy and two of his sisters founded the employee reward and gifting site Wishlist, which they sold to <span class="companylink">Qantas</span> in 2011. Yarra Capital Partners, the private equity firm he established with Melbourne businessman Alan Schwartz in 2008, has investments in a number of businesses and Truong's current full-time job is heading one of those investments, insurer ALI Group.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has been a long journey, one he now finds himself having to defend publicly in an environment of growing hostility towards <b>asylum</b> seekers and new arrivals. Long an undercurrent in mostly white Australia, it has flourished openly ever since a struggling John Howard exploited the Tampa <b>refugee</b> crisis of 2001 to win re-election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since then, all Howard's successors - Rudd, Gillard, Abbott, Turnbull - have played the anti-<b>asylum</b> seeker card and found it lost them few votes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton this week turned the rhetoric up a notch, indicating Fraser's decision to allow Lebanese immigrants had created terrorists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Truong is diplomatic. "I think at best it was a misguided comment and at worst, political opportunism. In today's political climate you would hope to see more measured and strategic commentary coming out of our ministers rather than inciting even more feelings of fear and disenchantment."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The slightly built Truong, with a congenital neck condition that angles his head slightly, is fast becoming the nation's go-to <b>refugee</b>-in-chief. On the ABC's Q&A program last month, the former consultant and turnaround specialist was instructed to answer the question about how Australia could afford the financial burden of current and future refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I don't think our family has ever taken one welfare cheque to be honest," he said. "When we first came, Mum and Dad found a job straight away, straight after the initial settlement and they have been working in a factory for the last 30 years and then, you know, I've been involved in starting three businesses and others and created jobs."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You must be used to that question by now, I venture.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Not on national television!" he laughs. "It's a question that's on the mind of a lot of people ... but it's very dangerous just to look at your own family situation [saying] 'We did OK, so back off'. More businesses get started by immigrants who come in on a humanitarian visa than those who come on a skilled migrant or a family reunion visa."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He later sends me figures to support that argument. But even putting that aside, the economic inefficiency of Australia's offshore detention policy is staggering.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Over the last three years we've spent $10 billion. The forecast going forward has us spending $1.5 billion per year."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He sketches an alternative under which Australia would give $1 billion to the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> to improve conditions and infrastructure of its existing regional <b>refugee</b> transit camps. Australia could double its <b>refugee</b> intake to 26,000 from 13,000 and still strike a tough stance on people smuggling by declaring it would send any <b>boat</b> arrivals straight back to those regional camps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"You're spending a lot less money and you're upholding the country's reputation as an innovative leader in this area. I just don't understand why, with all the collective brain power that we have in Canberra and all the goodwill still in the vast majority of Australians looking for different solutions to what we currently have, we don't do that."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a warm Monday in Melbourne. After not wanting to let winter go, the weather jumps up to 35 degrees and the Besser-Block-and-bitumen shopping hub of Box Hill is kept from becoming a sauna by only cloud cover and breeze.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Truong orders food - Hanoi spring rolls, sugar cane prawn rolls - "prawn mushed into a paste, then chargrilled on sugar cane," he says - deep-fried shredded pork rice paper rolls, five spice quail and Indochine's wok-tossed vermicelli noodles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Would I like tea or something stronger? he asks. Whatever you're having, I respond. He orders two beers. It's hot and it's already after midday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The business argument underpins Truong's debate. Modern Australia, founded on immigration, puts its future at peril by turning against this source of inspiration and labour. It's not just Truong's argument. He refers to Australia's Second Chance, in which economic commentator George Megalogenis says Australia's economic stagnation that started with the 1890s recession coincided with an anti-immigrant sentiment that shut the doors to large numbers of foreign arrivals. That funk lifted only post-World War II, reflecting a pattern that suggests the prosperity of this island nation is fundamentally linked to the skills and workers it can bring in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Groups like that are more builders than harvesters of an existing system," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That's part of the reason Truong has been working on a new initiative, Thrive, which <span class="companylink">Westpac</span> this week said it would back with a $2 million loan facility, to offer micro-loans to newly arrived refugees to help them start businesses.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The idea came out of conversations with Allianz Australia chairman and former Westpac deputy chairman John Curtis and his wife Anna Curtis. Thrive will work with Settlement Services International, a not-for-profit first port of call for newly arrived refugees and migrants, to identify people with the skills and interest in setting up a business. "I am the <b>refugee</b> on the board," he smiles. "So I bring a bit more of the inherent credibility that comes with someone who's lived that life."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed he can. Upon arriving in Melbourne, his father, who had been a successful importer/exporter in Vietnam, worked in a cardboard-making factory and his mother in a timber window assembly business. His father also tried to set up an abalone business. For a year, he worked factory night shifts and, during the day, tried to dry abalone for export, but it didn't work out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He couldn't borrow money from anyone to continue to run the business." His father resigned himself to earning an income and focused on getting his children educated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Truong describes refugees as a human resource that has come through the most arduous interview process. He says, "Those who arrive under extreme circumstances generally have more capacity and more motivation to really build a second life for themselves, and take the sort of risk to start businesses and employ people and create jobs that someone who perhaps has been here for one, two, three generations may not."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But that hunger has to be tapped effectively, he warns. "When a person first arrives, they have these very aspirational views, they're really positive, they're really excited but after a year, 18 months, two years, two and a half years of not being able to get a job, that fire in the belly or that sparkle in the eye can start to diminish and once you've been knocked back a number of times, and you don't feel like you have any options left, then yes, welfare becomes almost like a provider of last resort."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those first two years are crucial for learning the language and assimilating, he says. "That will really unlock the underlying entrepreneurship that's there."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian economy has also moved on since the 1970s. New arrivals no longer have factory jobs to go straight into, as a generation of Indochinese or Lebanese refugees did. The great opportunity for these people - and what Thrive wants to help them get into - is the growing service economy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To issue 500 loans a year, Thrive would need a funding base of $10 million to $20 million. <span class="companylink">Westpac</span>'s initial commitment to the scheme is three years. Truong wants to expand the pool of capital by issuing bonds to impact investors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also sees Thrive growing into an organisation that can lobby and influence policy on refugees and migrants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our meal finishes with Vietnamese coffee, served at the table with drip filters over each cup.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Truong's life in Australia began with a journey that landed him, his parents and three sisters at a <b>refugee</b> reception centre in Nunawading. He's now on another one, but this time it's different.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"When we first arrived in Australia, we had a very micro view on what was important: that was to survive, assimilate and to build a life for us here," he reflects. "Particularly for Mum and Dad, but even for the four siblings, it was living life day to day, whereas now I'm looking at this, not just from the micro perspective, but in the sense of Australia's development going forward."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Truong's day job is heading the insurance business he acquired from its founding chairman, one Malcolm Turnbull. Truong recalls agreeing terms of the deal over the phone with Turnbull's wife Lucy on a May night in 2008, before she headed back into federal Parliament to watch the budget reply speech by Turnbull, then shadow treasurer. A different perspective, indeed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There aren't too many refugees from too many countries who end up buying a business from the prime minister," he smiles. W</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">INDOCHINE VIETNAMESE CUISINE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">51 Carrington Road, Box Hill, Melbourne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1 Hanoi spring rolls, $13.50</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1 pork rice paper rolls, $10.80</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1 sugar cane prawn rolls, $10.80</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1 five spice quail, $10.80</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1 fried vermicelli noodles, $13.80</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2 Vietnamese beers, $17.00</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2 Vietnamese coffees, $8.40</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Total: $85.10</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When a person first arrives, they have these very aspirational views, they're really positive.</p>
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Malcolm Turnbull's hopes of the Senate passing his signature industrial relations legislation next week have been rocked after Nick Xenophon confirmed he and his two Senate colleagues would not vote on any more government bills until the dispute over the Murray-Darling Basin Plan was sorted out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood the Prime Minister has pledged to put the water issue on the agenda at next month's Council of Australian Governments Meeting to try to assuage Senator Xenophon and SA Labor Prime Jay Weatherill.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After threatening earlier this week that there would be consequences if his home state of SA was "sold down the river", Senator Xenophon announced Friday the three Nick Xenophon Team Senators would be boycotting government legislation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We need to sort out this water mess before we sort any other pieces of legislation the government is interested in," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He added that sorting out the mess meant a solution that satisfied the SA government. While neither Senator Xenophon nor the state government expect a full reversal of a decision to not send an extra 450 gigalitres of water down the Murray, they will seek more than just assurances about the future of the agreement and certain guarantees about how the withdrawal of the 450GL would be managed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's a national river, it's a national environment and it's a national issue,' Mr Weatherill said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ultimatum could be a serious setback for the government, which was confident of the Senate passing on Monday legislation to re-establish the Australian Building and Construction Commission, one of the two industrial relations bills Mr Turnbull used as a trigger for the July 2 double dissolution election. The other bill, to establish a registered organisations commission, passed on Tuesday morning with the support of the NXT and five other Senate crossbenchers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government has been subject to a variety of demands by the eight Senate crossbenchers whose support it needs for the ABCC and, as of Friday, it was prepared to accommodate all those demands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The last sticking point is water.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With the three NXT votes a crucial bloc in the Senate, other bills under threat are the still-unresolved backpackers tax and the legislation to place a lifetime ban on <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> after July 2013 from ever settling in or visiting Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The water dispute concerns the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, which was a bipartisan agreement signed in 2012 to cover the sharing of water by the basin states.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under the agreement, the federal government would pay hundreds of millions of dollars to improve irrigation infrastructure with the aim of freeing up 2750 gigalitres, or 2750 billion litres, to be sent down the River Murray as environmental flows by 2024.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another 450GL would also be sent down but only, as the agreement stipulates, if there was no adverse social or economic effects on upstream basin communities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The issue exploded a week ago when federal Water Minister Barnaby Joyce, and NSW and Victoria, said there would be adverse effects and that the 450GL extra should not be sent down the river.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Water is a red hot political issue in SA and Senator Xenophon, the SA Labor government and Liberal Opposition believe the 450GL decision breached the spirit of the agreement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull maintained all week that if the 450GL was withheld, that was not inconsistent with the federal government's promise to deliver the plan "in full and on time" because the 450GL was always subject to a caveat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Xenophon said he believed the letter and spirit of the agreement needed to be carried out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's not just about SA, it's about the health of the entire Murray-Darling Basin," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most important bill as far as the government is concerned is the ABCC legislation and Senator Xenophon's ultimatum is likely to promote a weekend of desperate negotiation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government had been planning for an ABCC vote on Monday.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JAMES CAMPBELL </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">NOTHING demonstrates better the predicament Malcolm Turnbull finds himself in these days than his response to Peter Dutton’s assertion that “Malcolm Fraser did make mistakes in bringing some people in the 1970s and we’re seeing that today”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There’s no sugar-coating this stuff. When the Immigration Minister starts telling his fellow citizens that if he’d had his way, their parents and grandparents wouldn’t have been let in, who can say where we are going to end up?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given how neatly Dutton’s remarks dovetail with Islamic extremists’ message to young Muslim men — that they will never be accepted — you might have thought this was an occasion for the Prime Minister, the leader of the nation, to step in and say that while no doubt his minister is a good fellow, he himself does not endorse these remarks and everyone born here should feel equally at home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But that was not what he did.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked on Tuesday if he agreed with Dutton, Turnbull answered thus: “There is no question that there are lessons to be learned from previous immigration policies and the minister was reflecting on policies many years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He’s entitled to do that. But the critical thing is, and I’m not making any comment on his remarks other than to say that it’s fair for all of us to reflect on past policies and how effective they were or not and seek to improve, in the light of that, to improve what we’re doing now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I have to say that if you talk to people, you know, who have very long experience in this area, you’ll understand that the move to a more skills-based migration program was based on the conclusion that previous policies had not been as effective as they could be.” In other words, yes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There could be no clearer proof that Turnbull is now completely hostage to the Right-wingers in his party room and the so-called conservative movement. The hopes small-l liberals had of progressive Malcolm of 2015 are now a distant memory.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the past few months Turnbull’s been to New York to brag that our policy of interning <b>asylum</b> seekers is “the best in the world”, he’s blamed South Australia’s blackout on solar and wind farms and introduced a Bill banning refugees who arrive by <b>boat</b> from ever setting food in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most importantly, he’s set up a parliamentary inquiry into the operation of the Racial Discrimination Act, which will almost certainly result in an attempt to reform the notorious Section 18C — something the “conservative” Tony Abbott promised when he was Opposition leader before walking away talking drivel about “Team Australia”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TRUE, Turnbull has arranged for some refugees on Nauru to head to the United States, which could be seen as a reward, and his <b>refugee</b> Bill leaves the back door open to these folks coming here because it contains a clause that gives a minister the power to override the ban but, really, the Prime Minister’s evolution has been remarkable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the rate he’s going, can knighthoods be far away?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It won’t do him a bit of good of course. It doesn’t matter what he does, it will never be enough to make the Right love him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Similarly, Liberals and Nationals — of all stripes — ought to reflect on whether remarks like Dutton’s are the way to win the hearts of One Nation voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you really care about levels of Muslim immigration, why would you vote for the Liberal Party when you can vote for the real deal in Pauline Hanson, just as if you really care about climate change why would you vote for the Labor Party when you can vote for the Greens?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, if the Labor Party’s experience with the Greens over the past 20 years teaches anything, it’s that pandering to the extreme wing of your support base gets you nowhere because you can never do enough to please them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bob Hawke is remembered today as great reforming prime minister and a hero of the Labor movement. We forget how much he was hated at the time by the extremists of his own party and the Leftie world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Senator Cory Bernardi goes on about the “heartbreaking” way Liberals have supported an agenda of “new-age socialism”, he sounds just like Leftists of yesteryear when they whined about the continuing presence of the United States base at Pine Gap or the imminent privatisation of Qantas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The mentality that sees all compromise as betrayal is one of the reasons the Greens party is with us today — and the same sentiment is alive and well on the Right at the moment. Take Bernardi’s latest epistle to his supporters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday he told his supporters that “political parties, if they are to survive, need to have a strong sense of principled conviction that shapes and frames policy development” rather than drifting along “wondering where the tide of public opinion will take them”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bernardi says he is not in politics for a pleasant time but to “strengthen, to change, to advocate and to inspire” and he worries that “too many seem to have lost sight of that”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s not sure “exactly what direction” he will be heading in next as it is “still a work in progress” but he hopes his fans will “embark on the journey” with him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It sounds like he’s half out the door already.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">JAMES CAMPBELL IS NATIONAL POLITICS EDITOR james.campbell@news.com.au@J_C_Campbell</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>No reason for 'severe' lifetime visitor visa ban</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tom McIlroy Political reporter </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>409 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 November 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First Drop-in</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Turnbull government's proposed lifetime ban on resettled <b>asylum</b> seekers receiving visas to visit Australia is "severe and exceptional" and could disproportionately target people on the basis of race, a parliamentary committee has found.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Scrutiny of the lifetime visa ban by the Liberal-majority Human Rights Committee found there was no reason refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers held in immigration detention on Nauru and Manus Island should be banned from visiting Australia for business or tourism in the future.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chaired by Liberal MP Ian Goodenough, the committee found the ban could be unnecessary because there is no suggestion that any detainee being held presents a danger to Australia or that any future visit could have any adverse effect on national security. "As such, the ban would appear to apply a penalty on those who seek <b>asylum</b> and are part of the regional processing cohort," the report said. "The right to seek <b>asylum</b>, irrespective of the mode of transit, is protected under international law. The ban may also have a disproportionate negative effect on individuals from particular national origins; nationalities; or on the basis of race, which gives rise to concerns regarding indirect discrimination on these grounds."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Released on Tuesday, the report noted the laws were designed to prevent others embarking on dangerous <b>boat</b> journeys to Australia, but the plan would apply "an unlawful penalty" for seeking <b>asylum</b> in contravention of the United Nations <b>Refugee</b> Convention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The committee has asked for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to provide more information about the bill's human rights compatibility. It would make any adult sent to Manus or Nauru after July 19, 2013, ineligible to make a valid visa application in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ban was already viewed as unlikely to pass the Senate, with key crossbenchers including David Leyonhjelm and Derryn Hinch expected to oppose the controversial bill. Failure to pass the measure would be a blow for Mr Dutton and the government, but is unlikely to endanger a deal between with the outgoing Obama administration to resettle refugees on Manus Island and Nauru in the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor and the Greens have pledged to vote down the lifetime visa ban.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Department of Immigration confirmed this week at least 857 people had expressed interest in the US resettlement plan, including some of the 377 people who have been temporarily transferred to Australia from Nauru or Manus Island for medical reasons.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>
UN warns of 'social time bomb' of <b>asylum</b> seekers in limbo</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>335 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 November 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia faces a "social time bomb" over the failure to process and integrate about 30,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers who are in the community on bridging visas after arriving by <b>boat</b> during the term of the former Labor government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The warning comes from the <span class="companylink">United Nations <b>refugee</b> agency</span>'s most senior protection official, Volker Turk, who has urged the Turnbull government to process the "legacy caseload" quickly, efficiently and fairly to avoid breaking those who should be afforded the chance to rebuild their lives.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"You need to make sure that people can get on with their lives," the Geneva-based Mr Turk said after meeting some of those on bridging visas in Australia. "It's a social time bomb if you don't address it, and it is something that is utterly avoidable," Mr Turk said. "In any country in the world, if you have the resources, you can actually process cases in a fair and efficient procedure."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 10 <b>asylum</b> seekers on bridging visas have taken their lives in the past two years and it is alleged another, a Rohingyan man who arrived by <b>boat</b> in 2013, injured himself and 27 others in a Springvale bank when he set himself on fire last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In September, government officials said that more than 7000 of the legacy caseload had received "primary assessments", and that more than 27,000 were in the community on bridging visas including 25,000 with work rights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The small number of IMAs (Illegal Maritime Arrivals) in detention are there for character, national security or behavioural concerns and not because their protection claims have not been assessed," the official said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turk said the <b>asylum</b> seekers he had met struck him as people who would make "the greatest contributions to Australian society" but prolonged periods of uncertainty could break people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For help visit beyondblue.org.au, call Suicide Helpline Victoria on 1300 651 251, or Lifeline on 131 114. </p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>
UN warns of <b>asylum</b> seeker visa 'social time bomb'</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>720 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 November 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration - 30,000 in community</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia faces a "social time bomb" over the failure to process and integrate around 30,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers who are in the community on bridging visas after arriving by <b>boat</b> during the term of the former Labor government.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The warning comes from the <span class="companylink">United Nations <b>refugee</b> agency</span>'s most senior protection official, Volker Turk, who has urged the Turnbull government to process the so-called "legacy caseload" quickly, efficiently and fairly to avoid breaking those who should be afforded the chance to rebuild their lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"You need to make sure that people can get on with their lives," the Geneva-based Mr Turk told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> after meeting some of those on bridging visas during a visit to Australia. "It is very urgent to address this issue."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Only a fraction of the caseload have had primary decisions and mental health experts say uncertainty about their futures, access to education and employment and whether they will be returned to detention or their home countries, is contributing to high levels of anxiety and depression among those on bridging visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's a social time bomb if you don't address it, and it is something that is utterly avoidable," Mr Turk said. "In any country in the world, if you have the resources, you can actually process cases in a fair and efficient procedure."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 10 <b>asylum</b> seekers on bridging visas have taken their lives in the past two years and it's alleged another, a Rohingyan man who arrived by <b>boat</b> in 2013, injured himself and 27 others in a Springvale bank when he set himself on fire last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There are increasing reports of many people within the <b>asylum</b>-seeker community being at advanced stages of feeling mentally trapped, figuratively boxed in, especially hopeless and helpless," says Professor Nicholas Procter, of the <span class="companylink">University of South Australia</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Whether the person's perspective is influenced by events in the recent or distant past, contemporary events in Australia or elsewhere, or any possible combination of these, the picture is one of lethal hopelessness."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In September, government officials told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> that more than 7000 of the legacy caseload had received "primary assessments", and that more than 27,000 were in the community on bridging visas including 25,000 with work rights. "The small number of IMAs [Illegal Maritime Arrivals] in detention are there for character, national security or behavioural concerns and not because their protection claims have not been assessed," the official said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turk, the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>'s assistant high commissioner for protection, said the <b>asylum</b> seekers he had met on bridging visas struck him as people who would make "the greatest contributions to Australian society".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he said prolonged periods of uncertainty had the potential to break people when "that is not what <b>refugee</b> protection is about - it's meant to restore people and give them a future".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turk has also expressed confidence that all the <b>asylum</b> seekers who have been held on Nauru and Manus Island for more than three years will be settled elsewhere following the deal with the United States. While the majority would be resettled in the US, he said it was important "that other countries come in as well".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We are really looking at finding a solution for everyone because people have been in a very difficult situation in detention for prolonged periods of time with massive impact on their health, especially on their mental health," Mr Turk said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> did not usually assist in resettling <b>asylum</b> seekers from developed countries, it has agreed to administer the deal with the United States because of the "precarious" state of those on Manus Island and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> reported on Monday, the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> has found refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers held on Manus Island are experiencing some of the highest rates of depressive and anxiety disorders recorded, overwhelmingly as the result of their detention experience. Nauru was almost as bad.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turk said he anticipated those whose protection claims had been rejected would be reassessed, saying the circumstances of their detention and their mental state may have diminished the ability to present their case.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said the For help or information visit beyondblue.org.au, Lifeline on 131 114.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Seeking a safe place to call home</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>846 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 November 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MUM, Dad and I came to Australia as displaced persons after World War II. Dad was part of an ethnic subgroup that inhabited an area of the Carpathian Mountains known as Lemkivshchyna. This Lemko region enjoyed a brief period of independence as the Lemko-Rusyn Republic before it became incorporated into Poland in 1920. American artist Andy Warhol’s parents were Lemko emigrants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the late 1940s, supposed security reasons led to the forcible deportation of the Lemko population of 135,000 people to parts of western and northern Poland, as well as Ukraine.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With all the upheaval of the time, Dad left Poland and his Lemko roots. He never saw his mother again. He ended up labouring in a coalmine in Belgium and then in Germany where he worked on a farm in Regensburg, Bavaria. There he met my mother, who was charmed by this multilingual, Cossack. He was a dashing young man who loved dancing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I was born there was literally “no room in the inn” for a young family in the post-war years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite hosting a Messerschmitt factory, Regensburg escaped much of the heavier bombing that devastated other regions and became a refuge for the injured and displaced population from neighbouring areas such as Nuremberg.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By the time I was 18 months old, Mum and Dad came to the conclusion there was no future in remaining where they were and reluctantly joined the thousands of Europeans who ventured out in search of a new life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Canada beckoned, but a last-minute alteration saw us leave Naples on a Norwegian ship bound for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After a month at sea we arrived in Newcastle and were sent to migrant reception centres, including the nearby Greta Migrant Camp and then Bonegilla near Albury-Wodonga, from where we eventually made our way to Tasmania.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In return for the voyage to Australia, Dad had to provide two years’ labour at the Australian government’s choice. Part of this agreement was discharged at Charters Towers in Queensland, where Dad cut sugarcane.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The rest of this time was spent working at <span class="companylink">Hobart City Council</span>. While everything was not all beer and skittles, we were treated in the main like humans worthy of respect and dignity. After all the hardships endured, it would have been unthinkable if the Australian government had sought to demonise us and pass retrospective laws that said we were criminals who could never re-enter Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both Mum and Dad had grown up under the shadow of dictators — Hitler and Stalin — where criticism of the government was anathema.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Coming to a country like Australia, where protests were allowed without repercussions, was almost inconceivable. As a regular Mercury letter writer, I have grown to appreciate the freedom Australians have had to express their views on a range of topics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is worrying when our Federal Government resorts to the mantra of “operational matters” in its mute maritime dealings with <b>asylum</b> seekers. Silencing support people on Manus Island and Nauru is a very disturbing trend that threatens our democracy and human rights record.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Beauty and simplicity are often indicators that a particular mathematical formula or scientific formula is on the money. Unfortunately, there is nothing attractive or uncomplicated about our Government’s <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy, which is mired in prejudice, heartlessness and despair, as well as costing taxpayers billions of dollars.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It would have been unimaginable back then for either the Liberal or Labor party to come up with a Manus Island or Nauru offshore “solution” for those of us who may have arrived on a fishing vessel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Imprisoning vulnerable and traumatised people on remote locations in the Pacific region for three years would have been just unthinkable!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After years in Tasmania, it became clear that Dad was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder when he experienced a couple of severe mental breakdowns. He had flashbacks to when he was being pursued and captured by Russians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Similarly, many displaced people, <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees have had harrowing experiences where their lives were threatened in ways we can only imagine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>asylum</b> seekers stranded on Nauru and Manus Island have undergone the trauma of events that have caused them to leave their homeland, as well as embark on the dangerous sea voyage to Australia, which as <b>asylum</b> seekers they are legally and ethically allowed to undertake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To be subject to further mental and psychological government-sponsored suffering is unconscionable and against all the principles of the United Nations <b>Refugee</b> Convention, to which Australia is a signatory.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At home I have a copy of our naturalisation papers signed by Harold Holt, the then immigration minister, who, with other MPs of the time, showed kindness, support and encouragement to people who came by <b>boat</b> to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ed Sianski is a regular Mercury letter-writer. He is manager of the Fr John Wall Community Library in the Tasmanian Catholic Education Office, and is a part-time student at the <span class="companylink">University of Tasmania</span> doing a Bachelor of Philosophy degree after recently completing aBA (Hons).</p>
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